Working With News Items

To share company news with your employees, you can create news items that appear on the Company News portlet in the Employee Center. If you have multiple locations set up for your company, you can create news items that appear for employees in specific locations. You can also create news items that appear for only managers. Managers can find manager-specific news on the Manager dashboard in the Employee Center.

Prerequisites

To create news items, the Employee Center Dashboard Publishing feature must be enabled in your NetSuite account. For more information about the Employee Center Publishing feature, see Employee Center Dashboard Publishing Feature.

As well, you must be assigned a role that includes the News Item permission. By default, the News Item permission is included in the following NetSuite roles, with the full access level (view, create, edit, and delete access):

• Chief People Officer (CPO)

• Human Resources Generalist

For more information about permissions, see NetSuite Permissions Overview.

Adding News Items to the Company News Portlet

The five most recent news items appear on the Company News portlet in the Employee Center. Older news items do not appear.

The following image shows what a news item looks like in the Company News portlet:

1	The headline of the news item.
2	The body of the news item. You can format this text with different fonts, colors, and basic formatting (bold, italics, underline, numbered and ordered lists).
3	The Call to Action button. You can specify the text that should appear on the button and a link for the button. For example, you might want to link to a page on your company’s intranet site.
4	Users can view headlines for other news items and click the headlines to read other news.

To add news items to the Company News portlet:

1. Go to Lists > News Items > New > New.

2. In the Headline field, enter a headline for the news item.

3. In the Body field, enter the text that makes up the body of the news item.

4. Additionally, you can set the following:

   • You can include a button that users can click to learn more or perform a certain action. In the Call to Action field, enter the text that should appear on the button. In the Call to Action Link field, enter the link that opens when the user clicks the button.

   • To show this news item to only employees in a specific location, first, clear the Available in All Locations box. Then, in the Locations list, select one or more locations.

     Important:

     Employees who are not associated with a location can see news items for any location. To learn how to associate an employee with a location, see Employee Locations.

   • To show this news item to only managers, check the Managers Only box.

5. Click Save.

To edit news items:

1. Go to Lists > Web Site > News Items.

2. Beside the news item that you want to edit, click Edit.

3. Make your changes.

4. Click Save.

To delete news items:

1. Go to Lists > Web Site > News Items.

2. Beside the news item that you want to delete, click Edit.

3. In the Actions menu, click Delete.

Related Topics

About the Employee Center Role

Employee Center Portlets

Granting Access to the Employee Center

Employee Center Dashboard Publishing Feature

Employee Center Management

General Notices