Yes - When enabling the social features of Natural HR including the social stream and social recognition you have the option to create a custom message that is used as part of the social stream notification for various events.

You can set these in place through the social settings screen found by going to:

Administration >  Company > Settings > Social > Social Settings

Social recognition text

This is used so your users can recognise other employees and their recognition is posted on the Social Stream.

Users create the recognition via Self Service where they simply pick an employee from the dropdown and enter a citation. It is vital that you customise this setting so the message displayed is informative.

The fields you can use for this are:

[rec_firstname] – recipient’s first name

[rec_surname] – recipient’s surname

[sender_firstname] – sender’s first name

[sender_surname] – sender’s surname

[citation]– citation entered by the sender

An example message for this could be as below – please pay particular attention to the double exclamation marks (!!) around the field values:

[rec_firstname] [rec_surname] has been recognised by [sender_firstname] [sender_surname] for: [citation]

This message would then be displayed as:

Joe Bloggs has been recognised by Mike Thomas for helping to meet an important deadline

If you fail to include the square brackets this would then be displayed as:

rec_firstname rec_surname has been recognised by sender_firstname sender_surname for citation

Here’s the other sections too, I’ll look at getting these entered into an article on my next run

New starter text

If you would like a notification of a new starter to be posted to the Social Stream then you should enter the necessary text in this box.

Please note: this only works if the new starter is added via Add Employee or Quick Add Employee and not via Bulk Upload.

The fields you can use for this are:

[firstname] – new starters firstname

[surname] – new starters surname

Example message – again, pay particular attention to the square brackets:

Please say hello to [firstname] [surname] who started with us today

Job change text

If you would like a notification of promotions or job changes to be posted to the Social Stream then you should enter the necessary text in this box.

The fields you can use for this are:

[firstname] – new starters firstname

[surname] – new starters surname

[new_job_role] – new job role name

Example message – again, pay particular attention to the double exclamation marks:

Congratulations to [firstname] [surname] on their promotion to [new_job_role]

New job requisition text

If you would like a notification of new job requisitions posted via Recruitment to be posted to the Social Stream then you should enter the necessary text in this box.

The fields you can use for this are:

[role]– job role requisition is for

[contact]– contact person dealing with the role

Example message – again, pay particular attention to the double exclamation marks:

New job requisition added for [role] - please contact  [contact] for further details