Create Organization Page Reference

Create a new organization by entering information on the Create Organization page.

Table 1. Organization Details
Field Description
Group ID The internal ID number for this group, which is automatically generated and cannot be changed. This field is visible on the Update Organization page only.
Group name Specify a name for the group using any combination of letters and numbers.
Office number

Enter the main contact number for the organization, optionally using parentheses and dashes for formatting. A third-party provider used by Vocera assigns a Voice Number based on the area code that you entered.

If the Office Number has a toll-free area code, a Voice Number is not created. In this situation, use a conventional area code for the Office Number, save the organization, and let the third-party provider assign a number in that area code. Then change the Office Number to use the toll-free area code and save the organization again.

Voice number The phone number that allows users to place calls from the Vocera Secure Texting app, provided by a third-party service. This number is provided automatically when you create an organization, and it is not editable.
Default time zone Specify a default time zone for the organization. The time zone is used for the time stamp of messages that are sent by members of the organization.
Members can send messages to whole organization Specify whether members of this organization are allowed to send messages to the entire organization.
Message expiration time Specify the amount of time that messages to members of this organization persist on the client. Messages that expire are removed from the VST client, but they are retained in the database of the VST server for the duration of the message retention period. By default, message expiration time is seven days.
Allow messages to non-users via email and SMS When set to yes, users may send messages to people outside their organization by specifying their email address or phone number. In addition, personal contacts from the user's mobile device appear in the VST client Contacts list. Changes to this setting take effect after approximately 30 minutes and require the user to switch tabs in the application.
High priority notification sound length Specify the duration of the tone that is played for high priority messages. By default, the duration is 30 seconds.
Message retention period Specify the amount of time that message content persists in the VST cloud database. When the retention period is reached, message content is purged and cannot be recovered. By default, the message retention period is null, and message content is never purged.