Send Now FeatureThe vBroadcast application allows users to immediately send appointment reminders instead of waiting for the next schedule of reminder notification time. This feature is useful when businesses want to send immediate SMS or Call messages such as emergency notices to customers already in the reminder recipient lists.Sample scenario for use:You are a doctor and would like to announce to those with appointments on a specific date that you will be unavailable due to an unforeseen emergency. Instead, they can call a number to have the appointment moved.Select the reminder campaign whose recipients you intend to send an immediate message by clicking the Send Now icon (). You will then be redirected to a series of pages:Recipient ListMessage ContentFinal Confirmation At the bottom of the pages, you are shown a set of dots (shown below) that indicates where you are in the series of pages. Send Reminders Now Recipient List pageThe first page allows you to select/trim the list of recipients for the Send Now feature. The recipients are from the same Recipient Groups as defined in your chosen Reminder Campaign. The options for selecting the recipient list are accessed through a search based on Schedule, Recipient Name, Phone Number, and Phone Type.Schedule options are:Having appointment in the next # daysThis will show recipients who have an appointment during the current date, and the indicated # of days away (e.g., If the current date is January 5 and the indicated number is 3, it will show appointments from January 5-8).Having appointment betweenYou may choose recipients who have appointments between specific dates. Click on the date picker to select the start and end dates for the search.Having a future appointmentHaving a past appointmentAll appointments (Includes past and future)Recipient Name option:You may trim down the list based on Recipient Name. You can use full or part of the name in the text box and choose in the drop-down list, whether the recipient name to select Contains, Starts With, Equals, or End With the search parameter. If you intend to filter only by Recipient name, choose "All appointments" in the Schedule options. Phone Number option:You may trim down the list by filtering full or partial phone numbers. If you intend to filter only by phone number, choose "All appointments" in the Schedule options. Phone Type option:You may trim down the list by selecting the phone type. "Both" for all numbers, "Call" for landline and mobile numbers, "SMS" to exclude landline numbers. Click the  button to show the results based on the search options.The recipients matching the search will be shown in a table at the bottom of the page. If there are more than 20 recipients, this area will instead show a count of the affected users.  Review the list. If satisfied, click the  button. Otherwise, modify and repeat the recipient filtering.Message Content PageOn the next page, you are shown the current Reminder Campaign settings for SMS and/or Call Reminder. If the chosen campaign for Send Now is of type, both checkboxes will be presented to help you decide what type of reminder you want to send. This determines what settings are shown below. You may modify these settings here. Click the Proceed button if satisfied with the settings or click the Back button to change the recipients. Final Confirmation page:Once you proceed, you will be shown the number of recipients that will receive the SMS or Call. This is your last chance to review the action.Click on Send Now when confident or Back if changes still need to be made. Clicking the Send Now button will submit the request for queueing in the server. This message will be shown if successful. As with regular reminder notifications, the Send Now notifications will show up in the Reminder Detailed Report.