Announcements Tab

To learn what announcements are and what they are used for, refer to What You Can Do with Announcements.

Note: All users can view announcements that have been sent to them in the My Announcements section of the Notifications tab. If you think you are also supposed to be able to create announcements, but you do not see the Announcements tab, contact your portal administrator.

The Announcements tab displays all announcements you have access to. It displays the following information for each announcement:

Column	Description
Announcements	Displays the subject of the announcement.
Created	Displays the date on which the announcement was created.
Expiration Date	Displays the date on which the announcement will no longer display to users.

You can perform the following actions on the Announcements tab:

To view the announcements in a particular folder, click the folder.
To view the details of an announcement (for example, the text of the announcement), click the announcement (you can click anywhere in the row). To learn about the details, refer to Announcement Details.

To search for an announcement, type the text you want to search for in the text box and click . Any announcements in the selected folder that meet your search criteria will be displayed. For more information on how search works, refer to Rules for Searches.
Note: Searches in the Announcements folders apply to the following fields: Subject and announcement text.

To remove your search criteria and display all announcements after performing a search, click .
To sort by column content, click the name of the column. displays next to the column name to show that the list is sorted in descending order by that column. If you click the column name again, the list will be sorted in ascending order () by that column.
If there are more than ten announcements, click Next (or click a page number) to view more announcements.

You must have permission to perform the following actions:

To create a new announcement, click Create Announcement. For more information, refer to Create or Edit Announcement.
To delete an announcement, check the box next to the announcement and click .
To create a new folder in which to store announcements, click New Folder.
To edit an announcement folder (other than the root folder), click the folder, and then click .
To delete an announcement folder (other than the root folder), click the folder, and then click .

Note: If you do not have access to these features, but think you are supposed to, contact your portal administrator.

Announcement Details

When you click an announcement, the following details display:

Detail	Description
Subject	Displays a brief description of this announcement.
To	Displays the users to whom this announcement was sent.
Announcement	Displays the full text of this announcement.
Date Created	Displays the date on which this announcement was created.
Expiration Date	Displays the date on which this announcement will no longer display to users.
Folder	Displays the folder in which this announcement is stored.