Announcements

Company announcements.

Who can use this page

Permission needed to open the page: View announcements (view_announcement). By default that is the Content Manager role.

To post, edit or delete: Add, Edit and Delete announcements (add_announcement, change_announcement, delete_announcement). Content Managers hold all three.

Everyone else receives announcements as notifications and in Slack (see below). Superusers can always open the page. Your administrator can also give the permissions to a custom role.

Announcements are company news, events and holidays. They appear as a feed, newest first, and everyone can react to them.

The feed

The feed fills the available content-panel width.

Each post shows:

• Who posted it, their photo and how long ago.
• A type label: Announcement, Event or Holiday.
• The title and description. Long descriptions are cut short with Show more and Show less.
• Pictures in a single horizontal row. Scroll sideways to see more; thumbnails load as they come into view. Select an image to open it full size. In the viewer, use the arrows to move between images and Close to leave.
• For events and holidays, or any post with an end date, the date or date range.
• Reactions.

Filter the feed with the tabs All, Events, Holidays and Announcements, or search the title and description. The feed loads more as you scroll, and tells you when you’re “all caught up”.

React to an announcement

Use the add-reaction button on a post. A small picker offers six quick emojis (👍 ❤️ 😂 😮 😢 🙏). The + expands it to a full set. Select your own reaction again to remove it. You can use several different emojis on one post.

Each reaction shows its count, and hovering over it shows the first few names. The full list opens in a Who reacted window.

Post an announcement

For people who can add announcements.

1. Select New announcement at the top of the page.
2. Enter a Title, between 3 and 255 characters.
3. Choose a Type: Holiday, Event or Custom. Custom is shown as “Announcement” in the feed.
4. Set the Start date. This is required.
5. Optionally set an End date. It can’t be earlier than the start date.
6. Add an optional Description, up to 1,000 characters.
7. Add optional Images: up to four, PNG, JPEG or WebP. Drag them in or choose them. A photo larger than 2 MB is shrunk in your browser before it uploads. You can remove an image before saving.
8. Check the Slack note under the form, then select Publish announcement. It tells you whether the post, and its images, will reach Slack.

Wait for images to finish processing before you save. The button stays off while they’re busy or while the form has errors.

What happens when you post

• In-app notification: every active person gets a notification, except you. It links to the feed.
• Slack, straight away: if Slack is connected, the title, description and dates are posted immediately, including future-dated announcements. With images, one separate top-level media post follows the text, containing all readable images in attachment order. Images are not threaded and do not create one post per image.
• Delivery issues: missing upload permission or unreadable images do not remove a successful text post. Administrators should check the delivery warning, restore readable attachments or reconnect Slack with file-upload permission. Retrying failed media preserves the successful text post.
• No daily digest: combined daily announcement digests have been retired. The in-app feed, notifications, individual announcement delivery and birthday wishes continue as usual.

Administrators can change the Slack channel under Settings → Integrations → Slack. See Integrations.

Edit or delete

Posts show an Edit announcement and a Delete announcement icon if you have the permission. Edit opens the same form with the current details and images. Select Update announcement to save.

Delete asks you to confirm. It permanently removes the announcement and can’t be undone.

Birthdays

Birthday wishes are posted to the Slack announcements channel automatically, one message per person. They run on working days only. A birthday that fell on a weekend or public holiday is wished on the next working day, and each birthday is posted once a year.

File uploads

The image picker stays first in a horizontal row, with uploaded thumbnails added to its right. Scroll horizontally to reach additional images; the picker keeps its width as images are added and matches the height of the image previews. Each thumbnail has a top-right cross to remove it. Image additions and removals are kept when you save or publish the announcement; controls are locked while saving.

Upload previews

Supported images under 2 MB preview inside the upload area. PDFs and larger files show an icon, filename, size and an eye button. Select the eye to load the file in a preview panel; close it with the cross or Escape. Saved files with an unknown size also wait until you open the preview. If a format cannot be previewed, download the file to view it. Upload limits and save timing remain as described above.