Overview
The Noticeboard is an area within an Entity record where users can highlight important information about an individual, household or organization. Noticeboard posts can be added to a record to alert the Client Service team to life events such as a divorce or the loss of a loved one. Noticeboard posts can also be added to a User record to alert the team when a co-worker is out of the office. The Noticeboard is available on the following record types in Practifi:
- Individual
- Household
- Organization
- Division
- Financial Product
- User
Noticeboard posts can be automatically archived on a pre-determined date or archived manually when no longer needed. Archived posts can be accessed at any time from the Noticeboard Posts tab. This article covers the basics of creating and managing Noticeboard posts.
- Noticeboard Post Types
- Create a Noticeboard Post
- Edit a Noticeboard Post
- Share a Noticeboard Post Across Entities
- Archive a Noticeboard Post
- View Archived Noticeboard Posts
- Unarchive a Noticeboard Post
- Delete a Noticeboard Post
- Automated Noticeboard Posts for Deceased Members
- Considerations
Noticeboard Post Types
There are three types of Noticeboard posts, as shown here:
- Critical posts are highlighted in orange and appear both in the Noticeboard area and at the top of the screen as a toast notification. Critical post notifications remain at the top of the record page every time it is opened until a user dismisses it. These notifications also appear at the top of the screen when viewing records related to the entity, such as assets, tasks or emails.
- Important posts are highlighted in gray.
- Standard posts are not highlighted. Standard is the default selection in the Alert Level field.
Create a Noticeboard Post
To create a Noticeboard post, do the following:
- Open an Entity record and navigate to the Overview tab.
- From the Noticeboard area, click the New Post icon. The New Post window opens.
- From the Alert Level drop-down, select Standard, Important or Critical.
- Optionally, click the calendar icon in the Archive Date field and specify a date for the post to be automatically archived.
- Add the content of the post in the text editor area. You can add formatting using the toolbar.
- When finished, click Save. The post is added to the Noticeboard area of the Overview tab.
Edit a Noticeboard Post
To edit a Noticeboard post, do the following:
- From the Noticeboard area, click the caret on the post you want to edit, then select Edit. The post opens in a new window.
- Make the desired changes, then click Save. A success message appears, and the post is updated.
Share a Noticeboard Post Across Entities
There are times when you might want a post to be shared across multiple records, such as when a colleague on the servicing team will be out of the office for an extended period. When posting to the Noticeboard on a Division, Financial Product or User record, you can enable the Post to related Entities? toggle switch. This will create a post on all Entity records related to the chosen division, financial product or user.
Noticeboard posts shared across Entity records are identical to other Noticeboard posts, except instead of the usual drop-down menu, a Share icon is displayed at the bottom. Hovering over this icon shows a description of where the post originated.
Please note: Noticeboard posts shared from the Division, User and Financial Product records cannot be edited or archived from the Entity records they're shared to. These changes must be made on the record where the post was originally made.
Noticeboard sharing logic works as follows:
For this record type... | Posts are shared with... |
Division |
Entities that have the Division as their Related Division. |
User | Entities where the User is the Owner. |
Financial Product | Entities with one or more Assets where the Financial Product or Parent Financial Product is the same Financial Product. |
Archive a Noticeboard Post
A Noticeboard post can be archived, which removes it from display in the Noticeboard area but keeps it saved within Practifi. To archive a Noticeboard post, click the caret on the post you want to archive, then select Archive. A success message appears, and the post is removed from the Noticeboard area.
View Archived Noticeboard Posts
To view all archived Noticeboard posts for a client, do the following:
- Click the View All icon in the Noticeboard area. The Noticeboard Posts tab opens.
- From the Noticeboard Posts record table, click the name of a post to open a detailed view, or click the caret to edit or delete the post.
Unarchive a Noticeboard Post
If a post has been archived in error, it can be removed from the archive and re-posted to the record page. To unarchive a post, do the following:
- Click the View All icon in the Noticeboard area. The Noticeboard Posts tab opens.
- From the Noticeboard Posts record table, click the name of the post you want to unarchive. It opens in a new tab.
- At the top of the screen, click the Unarchive button.
Delete a Noticeboard Post
Please note: Once deleted, a Noticeboard post cannot be recovered. Consider archiving a Noticeboard post rather than deleting it.
To delete a Noticeboard post, click the caret on the post, then select Delete.
Automated Noticeboard Posts for Deceased Members
Within your organization's Practifi Settings, automation exists to create a Noticeboard post on a record's Overview page when a member's Date of Death field is populated. Upon saving the Date of Death field information, the automation creates an Important level Noticeboard post on their parent Household record. This post will alert any of your firm's users accessing the record that a death has occurred.
To ensure this automation is enabled in your organization, a System Administrator should complete the following steps:
- Select the settings cog in the upper right-hand corner of Practifi and select Setup from the drop-down menu.
- In the Quick Find search bar on the left-hand side, search for Custom Settings and select this option from the search results under the Custom Code menu.
- Locate the Practifi Settings option on the list of Custom Settings and select Manage beside its name.
- Select the New button if no values exist in the Default Organization Level Value section.
- If values exist, ensure the Show NoticeboardPost for Deceased Member checkbox is selected. If this is not selected, click the Edit button and select the Show NoticeboardPost for Deceased Member checkbox.
- Optionally, you may replace the body of the Noticeboard post created when a member is marked as deceased by entering a value in the Noticeboard Post For Deceased HH Members field. To replace the body, specify the API name of a formula field on the Contact object that contains the value you wish to use instead. By default, the message will display their relation to the primary member, name, age and date of death. For example, "Stan's spouse Tanya Smith, 49 years old, passed away on 2024-04-08."
- Click Save to finalize your changes.
We introduced the Rulebook feature as part of the Petit Verdot release deployed in September 2023. A pre-configured rule in the Rulebook is the Client Death rule, which automatically creates a critical Noticeboard post on the Client record and launches a task to manage how to give condolences to the client. This rule is set to Inactive status by default in your organization. It can be enabled by a System Administrator if your firm is looking for a higher-intensity Noticeboard post and automatic task generation for a deceased Household member.
Before using this rule, you must ensure the following:
- The Show NoticeboardPost for Deceased Member checkbox is unchecked in Practifi Custom Settings. Failure to uncheck this box will result in duplicate Noticeboard posts in your organization upon entry of a Death Date value.
- A Task Template has been selected to launch when using this rule. To select a Task Template, complete the following steps:
- Select the App Launcher in the upper left-hand corner of Practifi and click the Settings app from the drop-down menu.
- Once in the Settings app, use the navigation menu to locate and select the Rulebook page.
- Select the list view to change the view from Recently Viewed to Other Rules.
- Locate the Client Death rule on this list and select its hyperlinked name. The rule will open in a new tab.
- Under the Rule Actions section on the right-hand side, click on the Client Death - Create a Task action.
- Select the pencil icon on the Task Template field to edit the field's value, then search for and select the template you would like to use when this rule is triggered.
- Once your Task Template is selected, click the Save button at the bottom of the screen to finalize this change.
- Select the App Launcher in the upper left-hand corner of Practifi and click the Settings app from the drop-down menu.
- The rule must be set to Active to use. This should occur after ensuring the Show NoticeboardPost for Deceased Member checkbox is unchecked in Practifi Custom Settings and after assigning the Task Template to the rule. Failure to ensure these two settings before activating the rule will cause duplicate Noticeboard posts in your organization and incomplete rule actions. To set the Client Death rule to active:
- On the Client Death rule's settings page, select the pencil icon in the Status field.
- Change the drop-down option from Inactive to Active.
- Click the Save button at the bottom of the screen to finalize the change.
- On the Client Death rule's settings page, select the pencil icon in the Status field.
It is essential to only have either the custom settings Show NoticeboardPost for Deceased Member or the Client Death rule active at any given time if your firm wishes to see Noticeboard posts generated when a member of the Household is marked deceased. If your firm does not wish to see any Noticeboard posts for deceased members, the Show NoticeboardPost for Deceased Member checkbox must be unchecked in Practifi Custom Settings, and the Client Death rule in the Rulebook must be inactive.
Considerations
The Noticeboard appears in the Key Records tab, which is part of the Overview at the top of the Client record page.
Please note: Customizations to the Client record page in Lightning App Builder will not affect the enablement process, provided the Key Records tab is still on the page, and still contains the Household Client Overview Page, Individual Client Overview Page and Organization Client Overview Page components.
Practifi Administrators have the ability to restrict which users can select the Critical alert level for Noticeboard posts. After all, critical posts can be a handy way to ensure that nobody misses something, but if overused, the associated toast notifications could lead to excessive clutter when opening client records.
A special permission set - Disable Critical Alert Level - can be applied to users and permission set groups depending on your firm's preferences. Once applied, users included in this permission set will either no longer see Critical as an option when setting alert levels, or will be blocked from saving posts with that level assigned, depending on context.
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