Click Add to create a news/announcement. This will direct you to a news/announcement creation screen, with the required fields marked with a red asterisk (*).
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Click Save to save the Content as a draft.
Click Save & Publish to save the changes and then publish them so that the users in the Visibility can see them. This is available if you have a publishing permission (Click Profile from the profile menu to see if you have the Pulse All Access or Pulse Publisher roles assigned).
The Content is defaulted to News, meaning it’s external to your organization.
Enter the title and Content if you want to publish a news item with Low importance to all organizations under your scope, without a banner image, and allow comments (default options).
Access:
This is common to all pieces of Content in the platform. This allows you to set who can see this Content (with or without notifications when it’s published), and/or who can be a collaborator (meaning, who else can edit this Content).
All the organizations under your scope are listed under Visibility by default. You can delete them by clicking the ‘x’ and/or add more users, organizations, and/or teams by entering them in the visibility input field. Click and select them when you see your desired user/organization/team or user group.
All Content, when published (Save & Publish at the toolbar if you have that permission), is notified to users who are part of the Visibility section by default. Check the Do not send Notifications checkbox under the Visibility input field to prevent this.
Click the collaborators input field to select the users you want to add as collaborators to this Content. You can also search by typing the user name in this input field.
Tags:
You can add tags to your Content and then use them for searching and/or linking them to the site widgets. Click the input field to see the existing tags and add them, or enter a tag name and hit Enter to create and apply the tag. You can add multiple tags to each content item. Once added, click the x on the tag to remove it.
Options:
Change the category to Announcement to make it an announcement. This will display additional options, such as the News ticker and the ability to Pin the Announcement in the dashboard’s announcement widget.
Change the importance of this Content by clicking Low (defaulted) or Important.
News ticker options are available only for the Announcements. When checked and published, this Content’s title will appear at the top of the platform, moving from right to left.
Optionally, you can also upload a 4:3 (landscape) aspect ratio image to be displayed as a banner for this News/Announcement.
Comments:
Comments are allowed by default unless you’ve disabled them at the Organization or Tenant level. Uncheck the Allow Comments to turn it off for this Content.
Check Strict Moderation when you want to review and approve user comments before publishing.
Once you are satisfied with your News or Announcement, click Save to view the workflow options or Save & Publish if you have the necessary publishing permissions.
We will discuss workflows in a separate tutorial.
Once published, it’s available to all users in the Visibility.