Creating a Population with Banner Communication Management (How-to)
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Banner Communication Management (BCM) uses Populations to send targeted communications.
1. Identify Your Population in Banner
1. Create a PopSel within Banner Admin Pages
- Log into Banner Admin Pages
- Create a population selection by following the Ellucian documentation
2. Create Query in BCM
1. Create a Query
- Log into BCM and click on Queries
- Click Add
- Create a Query Name. This name must be unique across all queries within BCM
- Optionally add a Description
- Select the appropriate Folder
- Select Population Selection Extract
- Use the drop-down menus to select your Application and Selection ID
- Click Save
- On the overview page, click Publish
- Finally, click Generate Population





3. Generate Your Population
1. Create a Population
- Enter a unique Population Name
- Optionally create a Description of your new population
- If you choose to generate your population later, check the Schedule Population Generation and choose a date and time to schedule the population generation
- Select an option in Advanced Options for future Regenerations of this Population
- It is recommended to use the Always use the latest published version of the query option
- Choose whether to share the population with others who have access to your folder within BCM by selecting Yes or No
- Click Generate

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Article ID:
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Created
Wed 4/14/21 1:02 PM
Modified
Wed 12/10/25 4:50 PM