Announcements
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Activate the app
- How to create announcements
- Announcement status
- Announcement categories
- (Un)follow announcements or announcement categories
Introduction
Announcements are part of the Hub. With announcements you can easily inform people in your organization on news, updates, accomplishments or anything else you would like to share. You can push these as a notification or pop-up to a specific group or the entire organization. You can also enable other people within your organization to create announcements.
An announcement is provided in a pop-up, which includes a title, description and optionally an image, video or a link. When the announcement is published, a notification is sent from which the user can open the pop-up. Optionally, the pop-up can be pushed directly to users.
Activate the app
When the Hub is enabled by the administrator from the App store, users are allowed to add it to their Workspace via the + Add tiles button.
When the Hub is added to Workspace, right-click to edit it to your liking. The tile will be available in various formats and layouts. Don't forget to click Save when you're done.
How to create announcements
Announcements can be created from:
- The + button from the Hub tile.
- Announcements under the Workspace settings page.
Furthermore, announcements contain clickable components. For instance, you can click on the author name to filter all announcements created by the selected author.
Click on read more to:
- View the full content
- Comment
- React
- View who published the announcement
Announcement status
You can filter announcements by three types of status:
- Planned
- Published
- Archived
Bear in mind that announcements that are already published, cannot be edited anymore after the "Publication end" date. These announcements will end up as archived. Archived announcements are presented in read-only mode.
Announcement categories
There are three levels of permissions you can set on announcement categories:
- Who has access: determine who can view announcements within a specific category.
- Editor: determine who can create, edit and delete announcements within a specific category.
- Owner: determine who can create, edit and delete announcements within a specific category and manage the category itself.
Bear in mind that the settings under Group permissions may be overruled by Group permissions:
- Not set is automatically Deny unless you choose Allow for a group in Group management.
- Allow is automatically Allow unless you choose Deny for a group in Group management.
- Deny overrides everything and is always deny for all groups.
(Un)follow announcements or announcement categories
A user can choose to follow an announcement by clicking on Follow announcement. Or, after commenting on an announcement, the user will automatically become a follower.
Notifications on these announcements will be present in their Activity Feed under the stack Announcement comments (unless you mute these kind of activities).
Clicking on such notifications from the Activity Feed will redirect the user to the corresponding announcement or comment. It's also possible to unfollow announcements. Then, you will no longer receive these notifications in your Activity Feed.
In the same regard as to following specific announcements, you can also choose to (un)follow specific announcement categories.
