Community-wide announcements are displayed for all users under Community
Announcements and as banners at the Home page.
Fastpath:
You can create a system announcement to be displayed for all users on the upper right
of all Activity pages, under the Community Announcements heading and above
Recommendations. Each announcement is also displayed as a banner at the top of the
Home Page. If multiple announcements are set to be displayed at the same time, users
can click through them in a predetermined sequence.
You can preview the images and text in your announcement as you create it.
You must have Manage Community permissions to create community-wide
announcements.
To create a community announcement and determine the order the announcements are
displayed in:
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In the user interface, click on your avatar in the upper right corner and
select System Announcements.
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Click Add a New Announcement.
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If you want to feature a URL in your announcement, select the
Announce a link check box and enter the URL in the
box.
Jive
automatically detects the page title and suggests a display title and image from
the linked page. You can choose to use these or replace them with your own title
and image as described in the following steps.
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In Title, enter the announcement title.
This is the heading users see when deciding whether to expand the
announcement, so you should make it short enough to be scanned easily.
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Optionally, add an image. Select the Include an image
check box and upload an image.
You can upload an image by browsing, or use drag and drop. You can see the
image in preview on the right after you select it. However, it is not visible in
the preview unless the Include an image check box is
selected.
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In Description, add a short text description with
further details of the announcement.
Again, shorter is better, since announcements are designed to fit in a small
space. If you want to link to further details, you can put a URL in the
description text. However, you can't currently put a named link in the
announcement text. To feature a URL in your announcement, use the
Announce a link feature, which links the URL to your
announcement title.
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Decide how long the announcement should be displayed by selecting a start and
end date in Begins and Expires.
Announcements start at 12:00 (AM) on the start date and expire at 23:59 on the
end date, in the announcement creator's time zone.
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Decide whether to send a notification about the announcement by selecting or
clearing the Send Inbox notifications check box.
Users who have their Inbox: Activity preference set to provide email
notifications (this is the default setting) receive an email as well as seeing
the announcement displayed in Activity pages.
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Click Save to save the announcement.
After you save your announcement, you can return to the System Announcements page and
determine the click-through order by dragging and dropping the cards. Click-through
order is left to right and top to bottom. If you have rights to edit community
announcements, you can edit or expire them directly by using the links directly
within the announcement.
Note: Note that moderation can be enabled for system announcements in your community. In
this case, the new announcements appear on the System Announcements page after they
pass moderation. For more information about moderation, see
Moderation.
Announcements are displayed from 12:00 (AM) on the start date and expire at 23:59 on
the end date, in the announcement creator's time zone.