Acknowledgements for Events: Ask Employees to Confirm Attendance at an Event

In this section:

• What are Acknowledgements?
• How to enable an Event Acknowledgement in the Thrive CMS

What are Acknowledgements?

This feature allows the app administrator to mark a page in the app as requiring the attention of app users. Users can then press a button on the page to confirm their attendance at an event. The app administrator can then export reports from the Thrive CMS to show which users have and have not confirmed attendance.

Our Acknowledgements functionality was built to help organisations get instant feedback and response to app content. Adding this simple mechanism into your app pages helps you create feed loops to allow you to confidently determine who has had access to content and who has acknowledged it.

How to create an Event Acknowledgement: Confirming Attendance at an Event

Creating Acknowledgement Content

If you have an event coming up and you want your employees to rsvp and keep track of who has done so, you'll want to create an Event Acknowledgement.

Start by creating a 'Page' in the Content Management System which contains the information about the event as required.

Next, enable Acknowledgement in the panel on the right of the screen, and choose Send Notification if you want to let Users know via an in-app notification that there is a post that requires their attention. Next, select 'Event Post' from the Choose Type drop-down and add in the Button Text to confirm attendance.  You also have the option to enter the available spaces for the event:

If your content is applicable to only some users, you'll also want to make sure that you've selected the appropriate user groups from the Audience tab, so that your content is visible only to the people who need to see it.

Finally, press Save and Publish Now in the CMS.

In the app, your users will receive a notification to let them know that a post requires their attention, and after reading it they'll be able to press the button to confirm attendance.

To view who has responded that they are attending, Click on Download CSV - Report.

The automatically created usergroup creates a group with all of the users who have signed up for the event. You can name this group to suit your requirements by clicking on 'Create Group'. This will allow you to create supplementary content (such as directions to the event or travel arrangements for returning home) that will be visible only to the people who have signed up.