4 Announcements

This chapter describes Announcements, which are presented in Workspace as dashboards of news items and resources. The following topics are covered:

• News Item Dashboard

• Resources Dashboard

• Reading Announcements

• Publishing an Announcement

• Reviewing Readership

• Administration

Announcements are the means of publishing communications to the user base, either as News Items, or as Resources for the more static items, such as links to external bodies or training resources.

The key features include:

• Categorization and Prioritization

• Targeting and Readership Logging

• Auto-expiry and Archiving

• Images (from a Photo Album repository) and Rich Text Formatting

The published announcements are presented on the Workspace page within the Resources and New Items dashboards. Clicking a tile opens the full article.

Figure 4-1 Announcements in Workspace

An Announcements page provides a list view of all announcements, with filter and search facilities.

Announcements are published by users with News Administrator access rights. These users also have access to the readership logging details, and to the administration of the Announcement glossaries and Photo Album.