How to use my email with GroupCamp

Your primary email address is used by GroupCamp to send you email notifications.

You can use additionnal email addresses as long as they have been added as additional email addresses in your Identity information. These email addresses will be recognized when you send emails to your GroupCamp account.

For more out, please consult this FAQ: How can I change my name, username, password, email, photo.

In the Email notifications menu of the Home > Preferences app.

Customize the way you wish to send out or receive email notifications.

• For your Inbox messages: How to use the Inbox app and set my preferences for email or Push notifications.
• For your schedule: How to receive my schedule by email.

When you receive an email, you can comment or reply to an exisiting comment.

Click on the link Reply to xxx or Comment and add attachements (link mailto:). Your email software will popup (here with Gmail).

Do not write in the subject line, your text will not be taken into account. Enter your comment or reply in the body of the email, add attachments, then click on Send.

GroupCamp allows you to post a message with attachments to a project, intranet or extranet group from your email.

To find out email address of the group feed, click on the Activity app of a group.

The popup lets you copy the feed email address and send a vCard file to your colleagues.

Note: Font styles are not taken into account (bold, underline, colors, bullet points ...).

The message will appear in the Group Feed. Attachments will be attached to the post, they will also be located in the folder Shared with the group in the Files app of your project

GroupCamp allows you to add tasks to a project directly from your email software. Use the Create button and select Add tasks from your email.

In the Add tasks from your email page 

Click on the Edit - Destination task list button to set up: 

• The email address of the Tasks app. in a project.
• The destination task list.

Add followers

• When a task is added by email, listed followers will be automatically added as followers of the task and therefore notified.

Email sending rules

• Users in field To: are assigned to the task if they are members of the project.
• Users in field Cc: are followers of the task.
• The email subject line becomes the task name.
• The body of the email becomes the task description.
• Attachments are added to the task and also stored in the Shared with the group folder of the Project Files app.
• The  email address needs to be used in one of the fields: To:, Cc, or Bcc.

Note: The Updates tab in the Information panel of the task list is updated every time a task is added by email. You can subscribe to the task list if you wish to receive notifications.

If you are a Google G Suite for Business user, you can have a Gmail contextual gadget when your G Suite domain is linked to your GroupCamp account.

The GroupCamp gadget for Gmail allows you to add tasks in the Tasks app. of a GroupCamp project,  and post a message in the Group feed located in the Activity app. of a group. 

For more information on how to use GroupCamp with G Suite please read the following articles:

• How to use GroupCamp Gmail gadget for G Suite users and Google Apps.
• Project Management with G Suite and Google Apps for Work.