Creating Detour Bulletins

Detour bulletins can be created from the OPS Line Group, Runs Display, and OPS Bulletins screens.

Detour bulletins are available in ESS. They are shown on the login page as commuter bulletins, are sent to employee inboxes as messages, and appear as detour notifications on employee calendars when work is affected by the detour. Images attached to detour bulletins are only shown in commuter bulletins on larger screens (not on smaller screens).

In the Client Shell, open the OPS Bulletins screen and set the Context (F3).
When creating detour bulletins from the OPS Line Group screen, the bulletin is limited to the selected line group. When creating detour bulletins from the Runs Display screen, the bulletin is limited to the selected work.
Select Add Bulletin:
Select Detour.
Select the Divisions for which the bulletin is intended.
Select a From Date and To Date for the bulletin.
The bulletin is only visible during this date range.
Using the Week Template, select the days of the week for which the bulletin is valid.
This field, together with the date range, determines when employees can see the bulletin.
Select whether the bulletin should be filtered by Line, Line Group, or Work.
Line is filtered based on the From Date defined in the screen Context and the associated sign-up period.

The selected field and its selected value determines which employees can see the bulletin in their calendar. All of the selected division's employees will see the detour bulletin in commuter bulletins on the login page and in their Inbox.
Enter the Bulletin Message.
Select OK.
To add an image to a detour bulletin, select the newly created bulletin and then Bulletin Attachment:
If multiple images are attached to a detour bulletin, each image appears in its own copy of the detour message on the ESS login page.
Important:
Commuter messages do not appear on the login page for employees using smaller screens.
1. Select Attach File. Use the ellipsis button (…) to navigate to and select the image file.
  Supported formats are .gif, .jpg, and .png.
  
  If you don't see the file name, confirm the correct file type is selected.
2. Select Save.
  The file is added to the database.
3. Enter any Comments and select Save.
4. If needed, select Add File to add a second attachment.
5. Select x to exit.
Images are shown in commuter bulletins on the ESS login page on larger screens.

Detour bulletins are visible in ESS on both smaller and larger screens as Detour Messages in employee Inboxes, and Detour Notifications on associated work assignments in the calendar.
Smaller screen versions of the Inbox with a detour message circled in red, a work assignment in the calendar with View Detour circled in red, and a resulting Detour Notification that shows the same information as the circled detour message.