Engagement: Engagement: News and Announcements

How to get there: Admin | Engagement | Portal News And Announcements

This option will allow you to publish targeted News and Announcements through the Employee Portall (an example of this is shown below):

Each article can have an audience assigned to target which employees can view it, a priority positioning, a news reel assignment and publishing dates.

see Admin | Engagement | Audiences for more information.

On selecting the option, a summary of the existing News and Announcements are shown (if any have been created). From here, the user can click on the Add button to create a new news item/announcement, Alternatively, if there are existing news items or announcements, the user can edit them by clicking on its respective row.

Screen Layout and Fields

Headline	Main headline for the article
Type	Type of Article (News or Announcement)
Status	Status, will show whether the item is active or not
Priority	Priority will show the article in italics within the News listing. When ticked, the news item is viewed as a priority
Portal Access	Shows where the article is going to be displayed: Employee - on the Employee Portal Customer - This is not an active field Both - on both the Employee and Customer Portal. Note: the Customer Portal is not active
Featured	Shows the article in the message bar at the top of the screen. Where there are more than one featured article, the message bar will flip to show the articles in the order that they are defined. Additionally, the article headline will be shown in bold within the News listing
Publish From	Date the article will appear on (i.e. be published from)
Publish To	Date the article will be hidden (i.e. the last date it will be published to)

Screen Actions

Back	Select to return to previous screen
Add	Select Add at the top of the screen to create a new News and Announcement article
Row	Select a Row to edit an existing News and Announcement article

Add or Edit a News and Announcement

By clicking either option, a screen will be shown that will allow the maintenance of the News and Announcement article. Once the article has been saved, previews of how it will look through a mobile phone and a desktop browser are available.

Screen Layout and Fields

Language	Drop-down selection of the available languages configured within the system. By default, this is set as English. see Admin \| Engagement \| Portal Culture for more information
Type	The type of article being created. Options are: News Announcement
Featured	Shows the article in the Notifications Bar at the top of the screen and the article headline will be shown in bold within the News listing. Where there is more than one featured article, the message bar will flip to show the articles in the order that they are defined. Available options are: Not Featured 1 2 3
Priority	Select if the item is to be flagged as a priority to be read
Portal	Select where the article is going to be displayed: Employee - on the Employee Portal Customer - This is not an active field Both - on both the Employee and Customer Portal. Note: the Customer Portal is not an active field.
Audience	The audience that the article will be targeted at. Clicking the [...] button will show a pop-up screen of the available audiences. see Admin \| Engagement \| Audiences for more information
Publish From	Date that the article will appear
Publish To	Date that the article will be hidden
Last Modified By	The name of the user who last modified the article
Priority	Priority will show the article in italics within the News listing
Snippet	Short description of the article that will appear in the Notifications Bar when set as Featured
Employee Audiences	Select the target audience for the message (Employee Audiences relate to those audiences defined for the Employee Portal). See Admin \| Engagement \| Employee Portal \| Audience for details about setting up Customer Audiences
Customer Audiences	Note: This is not an active field.
Toolbar	A toolbar is available within the Headline and Body sections: Source - toggles the display between a simple editor and an advanced HTML editor Hyperlink - allows the selected text to have a hyperlink attached (to open a new web page) Link Type web page URL (to open a new web page) an anchor within the current text such as go to top or page (to ease navigation email pop-up (to send an email) Target Frame pop-up Window New Window Top Most Window Same Window Parent Window Advanced Options Styles Formatting Styles Normal - Paragraph Format Font - Font Name Size - Font Size Bold Italic Underline Strike Through Remove Format Insert/Remove Number List Insert/Remove Bulleted List Align Left Centre Align Right Justify Text Color Background Color Insert Media
Headline	Main headline for the article
Article Body	Main content for the article. A toolbar is available to change the style of how the article is to be shown

Back	Return to article summary
Save	Save the article
Mobile Preview	Preview how article will look on a mobile phone:
Desktop Preview	Preview how article will look on a desktop browser:
Delete	Delete the article

Screen Actions

Language Selection

New and Announcements can be changed dependent on the language setup on your system. Selecting a language from the drop-down list will show the following confirmation:

Selecting OK will show the article with their associated language text for editing.

Screen Layout and Fields

Language	This drop-down list enables the user to select the available languages configured within the system. The default language is English. see Admin \| Engagement \| Portal Culture for more information
Snippet	A short description of the article that will appear in the Notifications Bar when set as Featured
Headline	Main headline for the article. A toolbar is available to change the style of how the article is to be shown
Article Body	Main content for the article. A toolbar is available to change the style of how the article is to be shown

Screen Actions

Back	Return to main article, without saving any changes
Save	Save the article
Mobile Preview	Preview how article will look on a mobile phone
Desktop Preview	Preview how article will look on a desktop browser
Delete	Delete the article