Onboarding guide · Chapter 13
Review, issue, update and end a message
Commercial · admin
A message moves through Draft, In review, Approved and Issued.
- The author presses Submit for review.
- With second-officer review on, another admin opens it and presses Approve, entering their name to print as “Approved by”, or Request changes to send it back.
- Press Issue + lock. The message is numbered, stamped with its issue time and becomes read-only.
- Download the PDF and send it through your usual channels. FlowAi does not send reports for you.
- When conditions change, open the issued message and press Issue an update. The update keeps the chain and its number, as in “Flood Watch #2 (update 1)”.
- To end a chain, start a message with a termination level (such as All Clear), choose the message it Terminates, and under In effect after this message say whether a lower level stays in effect.
An issued message can't be edited or deleted. To change one, issue an update. For a custom report, use Make a copy as a new draft.