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 and mobile notifications.
• For your schedule: How to receive my schedule by email.

GroupCamp allows you to send emails with attachments to a project.

To find out the email address, click on the Discussions app of the project, then click on the Project feed email address.

The popup lets you copy the Project 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 emiail message will appear in the Project Feed of the Discussions app. Attachments will be linked to the post, they will also be located in the Shared with the project folder of the project's Files app.

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.

GroupCamp for Gmail turns emails into tasks without leaving Gmail.

For more information please read the following article: GroupCamp for Gmail add-on turns emails into tasks.

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.