Creating, Editing, and Deleting Announcements

Service administrators can create and publish announcements to users about upcoming events such as system maintenance, upgrades, and new features. Announcements are displayed in the Announcements area on the Activity tab on the Home page.

Creating Announcements

  1. From the home page, click Tools, and then click Announcements.
  2. Click Create.
  3. Enter a subject header (maximum 100 characters), a start date and time, and optionally an end date and time for the announcement.
  4. Use the rich text editor to add the content of the announcement (maximum 1,000 characters).
  5. Click Save and Close to save the announcement.

    The announcement is displayed on the Announcements page with the most recent active announcements on top.

To edit an announcement:

Editing Announcements

  1. From the Announcements page, click the subject header of the announcement that you want to edit.
  2. Edit the subject header, start and end dates, and content of the announcement.
  3. Click Save and Close.

Deleting Announcements

  1. From the Announcements page click Action actions in the Actions column of the announcement that you want to delete, and select Delete.
  2. If the announcement is currently active, confirm that you want to delete it.