Announcements Page

Open the Announcements page to view all your announcements by clicking the View All Announcements link beneath the Announcements, or by selecting the Workspace/Announcements option in the Tasks menu.

Figure 4-3 Announcements Page

The page presents a list view containing all the announcements that are relevant to you.

Use the filter tiles, column sorting, and simple and advanced search facilities to categorize the contents and to search for specific announcements.

The following Quick Filter metric tiles are available:

Metric Tile	Description
All	The unfiltered list of published announcements (including archived items). For News Administrator users, this will also include unpublished items.
Published	The published announcements (excluding archived items).
Not Confirmed	Any published mandatory announcements, those which require confirmation that they have been read, which you have yet to confirm (excluding archived items). For News Administrator users, this just shows those that they personally are required to confirm, not a list of those that other users have yet to mark as read.
Mandatory	The published announcements that require you to confirmation they have been read; whether you have confirmed or not (excluding archived items).
Resources	The published resources (excluding archived items).
Archived	The published announcements that have been archived.

If you have News Administrator access rights you will also have the ability to create, edit, publish, and archive announcements. For further details, see the Publishing an Announcement section.