How to create a community geofence

Managing community geofences is privilege based. Dashboard administrators must have the “Add/Edit Standard & Community Geofences” to draw, edit or delete community geofences. Follow the steps below to create and enable community geofences.

1. Click on the white “LiveSafe” button at the top right of your events map and select either “Draw Geofence (Circle)” or “Draw Geofence (Custom)”
   
   
   
2. Using your cursor, locate the area on the events map where you want to draw your geofence. If drawing a circle, your first click will be its center. Hold, drag out to the desired size, and release to complete the circle. If drawing a custom shape, click to add points outlining the desired region.
   
3. Close the custom geofence shape by clicking on the first point added. As a best practice, draw your geofence a little larger than you think you may need (e.g. add the equivalent of a city block or two in every direction). This will help convey the appropriate information when using geofences for geo-targeted broadcast messaging and auto-prompting (enterprise structures) for those nearby but not necessarily within the geofence.
   
4. In the dialog box that appears, fill in the “Name” and “Description” fields
   
5. If you want this geofence visible to app users when they are viewing the Safety Map on their mobile device, check the “Show in the Safety Map” box.
   
6. Check the “Upon entry, prompt user to join Community” box ; if left unchecked, the geofence created will remain a Standard Geofence.
   
7. Click the blue “Save” button to create your geofence

Once saved, the geofence will be shaded green on the event map instead of blue, like a standard geofence. You can use this geofence strictly for auto-prompting users to join app communities as well as for sending a broadcast or check-in message.

Note: Because community geofences can be large by nature, once they are drawn and saved, they default to hidden. Follow the steps below to view all community geofences:

1. Using the worldview picker, navigate to the desired community dashboard.
2. Click on the white “LiveSafe” button located at the top right of your events map.
3. Select “Show Community Geofences”.
4. To hide all community geofences, select “Hide Community Geofences” from the same menu.