Manage Groups and Distribution Lists Automatically

Good news for Threema Work administrators: With the latest Threema Work and Threema Broadcast update, centrally managed groups and distribution lists can be automatically created and managed based on tags. This significantly reduces the administrative workload.

Tags can be used to categorize and segment users. For example, they could reflect the departments or locations of a company. With tag-based groups and distribution lists, users no longer need to be manually added to a group or distribution list but rather are automatically added once they are assigned the corresponding tag. Conversely, they are also removed from the group in question as soon as the corresponding tag is removed. 

Tags can be defined in the management cockpit’s user management. Management via an MDM system or Active Directory is even easier: there are no manual steps involved since tags are automatically assigned by means of the app configuration setting th_category.

In order to set up tag-based distribution lists or groups, proceed as follows:

1. In the management cockpit, select “Broadcast,” navigate to the desired Broadcast ID, and open the settings.
2. Click the pen icon next to the tag you want to use to create a distribution list or group, and activate the tag-based distribution list or group.
3. Define whether you want to create a new distribution list or group, or synchronize an existing one. When you create a new distribution list or group, you can also change the name.

Tags can be assigned to users or changed after the fact, making it easy to adjust distribution lists and groups at any time.