Announcements

Announcements offer a user-friendly way to communicate important updates to users through a modal dialogue. These messages are informative posts that appear on-screen, helping teams to share news, updates, or alerts within the application environment.

Overview of Announcements

Announcements are displayed as modal windows and serve as short, informative messages or updates. They are visible only once per user by default, but this behavior can be adjusted through the Manage Content Settings to one of the following:

• Once
• Every time
• Daily (once per day)
• Weekly (once per week)
• API call through custom code

When multiple announcements are available, they appear side by side within the same modal window.

Steps To change the visibility of the content

1. Go to guidance tab
2. Navigate to applications tab
3. Select the specific application and click on manage content
4. In the manage content all the section displayed e.g. routes, post, pins, Announcement
5. Select the content and click on the republished
6. In the dialogue change the display rules.

When is an announcement considered read?

AppNavi has an intelligent mechanism that registers when a user reads an announcement entry. If it is considered read, it is not displayed to the user again (exception is that a new version has been created). An announcement is considered read when a user has displayed the text of a post item for at least 1 second in the visible area of the announcement window.

Create Announcement

Announcement is created via portal, user can add a new announcement or assign already created announcement to an application.
Here are the steps to create a new announcement

1. Login to portal.
2. Navigate to the Guidance tab.
3. Go to content tab under guidance.
4. Click on Announcement card will open a announcement page

6. Click on plus icon present on top right.

7. Hover to the tile the plus icon will appear click on the icon will open the dialogue to create announcement instantly

8. In the dialogue User can create the announcement with the system design templates or create with scratch

9. add content of your announcement and click save changes.

10. Click on drop down arrow present on save changes button.
11. Select save and publish.
12. Select applications where User want to publish the announcement.

Republishing Announcements

It is possible to make changes to existing announcements. When announcement item is republished a new version is created. If the user has already viewed the original announcement, the change will still be displayed again with new version.