Announcements

Announcements let supervisors and admins broadcast messages to the entire organization, or to a chosen set of locations or departments. Employees see announcements in their sidebar and can read them at their own pace.

Creating an Announcement

1. Navigate to Announcements in the sidebar.
2. Click New announcement.
3. Fill in the form:

Field	Description
Title	A short headline (up to 200 characters).
Content	The full announcement body.
Visibility	Who can see it -- Entire organization, Location, or Department. For Location and Department, pick one or more targets (see Scoping).
Pinned	Pinned announcements always appear at the top of the list.
Requires acknowledgement	If enabled, the announcement is highlighted until the employee marks it as read.
Expires	Optional date after which the announcement stops appearing.

4. Click Save.

The announcement is published immediately and visible to all employees in the selected scope. Employees in scope are also notified.

Viewing Announcements

All users see the Announcements page in the sidebar. The list is split into two groups:

• Pinned -- Important announcements that stay at the top.
• Regular -- Everything else, shown in reverse chronological order.

Unread announcements are marked with a blue left border and an Unread badge. Clicking an announcement opens the full detail view and automatically marks it as read.

Announcement Detail

The detail page shows the full content along with metadata: scope, author, publish date, and expiry. Supervisors and admins can:

• Edit the title and body.
• Archive the announcement so it no longer appears in the list.
• Delete it permanently.

Read Receipts

Supervisors and admins see a Read by section on the detail page showing which employees have read the announcement and when. A counter (e.g., "12/30 read") gives a quick overview of reach.

Scoping

Announcements can target three levels:

Scope	Who sees it
Entire organization	All employees in the tenant.
Location	Employees assigned to any of the selected locations.
Department	Employees in any of the selected departments.

When you choose Location or Department, the available locations or departments appear as toggle chips. Click each one you want to include — for example, three of your eight parks — and the counter shows how many are selected. At least one must be selected before you can save.

An employee who belongs to more than one selected location or department sees the announcement once and gets only one notification, and counts once in the read-receipt total.

Permissions

Action	Roles
View announcements	All users
Create / edit	Supervisors, managers, company admins
Delete	Managers, company admins
View read receipts	Supervisors, managers, company admins