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Announcements

To create a new announcement or edit an existing announcement, click the Edit Announcements icon, , in the upper right corner of the Announcements area on the Portal page.

On the Create/Update Announcement page, if you want to create a new announcement, leave the Select Announcement to Edit field blank. To edit an existing announcement, select the announcement from the drop-down list in this field. Note that you can also edit an existing announcement by clicking the public or private icon associated with the announcement on the Portal. If you have done this, the announcement will automatically be selected in the Select Announcement to Edit field. Only users with specific permissions can create/edit system/company-wide announcements. Additionally, only authorized users can edit and/or remove an announcement created by another user.

For each announcement that you create/edit, do the following:

• Enter a Title and Description (i.e., text) for the announcement.

• Specify the Display Order, which is the order in which the announcement will appear in the list of announcements on the Portal. If you are posting a private announcement (i.e., the Display to Public check box is not selected), this will automatically be set to 3.

• Specify the date and time that the announcement will first be displayed and the date/time that it will be removed from the Portal using the Start Displaying At/Stop Displaying After fields. If these fields are left blank, the announcement will be displayed permanently (or until it is manually removed).

• If you want the announcement to be displayed to all users, select the Display to Public check box. If this check box is not selected, only you will be able to see the announcement.

• Determine when the announcement should be displayed (i.e., in which entities). This information is shown in the Entities field. Click the field name to change the entities.

To save your changes, choose Home > Announcement > Save.

Announcements History

On the Portal page, users can click the Announcements History icon, , to display a historical list of all announcements that exist in the database via the Announcement History page.

For all announcements created in the database, this page displays the announcement title, the name of user who created the announcement, the date when the announcement was first displayed and the date when the announcement will be removed from the Announcements area of the Portal. If N/A appears in the Start and End columns, this indicates that the announcement is permanently displayed (or until the announcement is removed). You can sort by any of the columns by clicking the column header.

Announcements that have been removed will appear greyed out. You can double-click the title of an announcement to display the announcement in the Create/Edit Announcement interface, which allows you to update or remove the announcement. Please note that only authorized users can update and/or remove an announcement created by another user. You can tell if you have permission to edit an announcement by looking at the square that appears beside it. If the square is solid, you can edit the announcement. If the square is an outline, you do not have permission to edit the announcement.