Module - Announcements

Introduction

Add announcements to your pages to communicate important information to your members. Announcements are a great way to keep members informed about events, in-store opportunities, opportunities to promote their business, and other important details. When you configure your announcements, you will choose whether to display them from your Global Feed or Global Discussions.

Benefits:

• Visibility: Announcements ensure critical information is easily accessible to everyone, whether essential group information or organizational updates for all users on your site.

• Organization: You can feature multiple announcements simultaneously in any announcement section.

• Engagement: Users can interact with announcement posts by liking, sharing, commenting, and replying.

Restrictions:

• You cannot designate discussion topics as announcements. You can only designate posts within discussion topics or feed posts as announcements.

• Announcements are defaulted to sort by the post's creation date, from oldest to newest.

• Only site admins can designate global announcements.

Who can manage announcements?

• Group Announcements: Group Admins and Site Admins.

• Global Announcements: Site admins only. Learn more about Global Announcements.

Types of Announcements

Group Announcements

Group announcements are designed to quickly disseminate critical information for that group, such as a newly scheduled meeting or a featured poll question.

 

Global announcements

Global announcements are an excellent way to highlight your organization's latest updates and happenings. The announcements module in Pagebuilder allows you to feature global announcements on any page. Global announcements can link back to both the Global Discussions and Global Feeds.

Add an Announcement Module

1. Click the gear icon in the upper right of the software.

2. In the left navigation panel, click Pages in the Layout section. 

3. Click the desired page (or create a new page if needed). You can now customize this page. 

4. In the left-hand panel, click the + to add a module. 

5. Click Announcements. Announcements will now be displayed in the left-hand panel.

6. Click on Announcements in the left-hand panel to configure the module. 

 

7. Configure the following:

   •  ​​​​​​​Name: You can change the module's name (not visible on the front end).

   • Title: 

     • ​​​​​​​Defaults to Announcements but can be updated to any title.

     • The title is visible to the public and appears at the top of the module.

     • This field is optional and has no character limit.

   • Choose where you wish to show announcements from. 

     • Global Feed

       • Default: Off

       • If selected, announcements from the global feed will be featured in this module.

       • Tooltip: This will show all announcements from the global feed.

     • Global Discussions

       • Default: Off

       • If selected, announcements from global discussions will be featured in this component.

       • This will show all announcements from global discussions.

8. After completing your configuration, click the X at the top of the settings to collapse the Announcements configuration settings.

9. Click Save Page. 

You have now added the announcement module to your page. Any time you update your global feed or discussions, the updates will automatically be displayed. 

Add an Announcement

The directions below show you how to add an announcement to the global announcement module or group announcement section. 

 Global Announcements

1. Navigate to Global Discussions or Global Feed (check your module to see which one is checked).

   1. If using Discussions, click into the topic to find the post you would like to announce.

2. Click on the ellipsis to the right of the Post you would like to announce.

 

3. Click the Announcement icon within the horizontal panel.

4. When clicked, the Announcement icon is highlighted, with a tooltip stating “Remove Announcement”.

 

5. Navigate to the Page where you’ve added your Announcement Module (usually the Home Page).

 

Group Announcements

1. Go to a group where you are both a member and an admin.

2. Select either the Discussion or Feed tab.

   1. If you are in the Discussion tab, open the specific discussion topic that contains the post you want to announce.

3. Locate the post you want to announce.

4. Click the ellipsis (⋯) to the right of the post.

5. From the horizontal action panel, select the Announcement icon.

   1. Once selected, the Announcement icon will appear highlighted and display a tooltip labeled “Remove Announcement.”

6. Navigate to the group’s About page to confirm the post now appears as an announcement.