# Announcements

## How community administrators can post announcements <a href="#how-community-administrators-can-post-announcements" id="how-community-administrators-can-post-announcements"></a>

* As a community administrator, navigate to a community and click the Announcements page.
* Click 'Add Announcement'.
* Provide a title and announcement body.
* If you wish to send out notifications to the community members that the announcement has been posted check off the appropriate box.
* Set the Time Release Options for the announcement. This controls when that announcement will start and stop being visible to users.
* Click 'Save.'
* To edit or delete existing announcements, navigate to the community announcement page and click 'edit' or 'delete' beside the announcement you want to modify.

![Sample Announcement page from the administrator view](https://3225702404-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LD7tTgZ-5g3UehqnyY6%2F-LGW9aShOBZmhY7p1cQK%2F-LGW9i4oS7Tbs1KXfiWx%2FScreen%20Shot%202018-07-03%20at%201.21.51%20PM.png?alt=media\&token=01b8e276-040a-4796-9c72-03565375203d)

## How community members can view announcements <a href="#how-community-members-can-view-announcements-and-events" id="how-community-members-can-view-announcements-and-events"></a>

Depending on how a community is set up, announcements might be displayed on the community home page. However, if they are not, community members can still access announcements from the Announcements page.

* Navigate to a community and click the Announcements page.
* The announcements will be displayed.

Community members can subscribe to an RSS feed of the community announcements by clicking on the small RSS icon.

![Sample announcement page viewed by community member](https://3225702404-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LD7tTgZ-5g3UehqnyY6%2F-LGW9rXNlWM7wdstLzA2%2F-LGWAQNIJCOvS8yK5ffG%2FScreen%20Shot%202018-07-03%20at%201.25.13%20PM.png?alt=media\&token=b78dcb46-2e0c-4fe6-898c-9cbdb9bda587)

## Allowing community members to post announcements

As a community administrator you can set the Announcement page permissions to allow community members or browsing non-members to post announcements.&#x20;

* Click on the Announcements page within a community.
* Click 'Edit Page'.
* Scroll down to the Page Permissions section and make your choices.

![In this sample Community Administrators and Members will be able to post announcements](https://3225702404-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LD7tTgZ-5g3UehqnyY6%2F-LVEBqpj_YLubN3y-RY_%2F-LVECjvLqn7SA4JfQxki%2FScreen%20Shot%202019-01-02%20at%2010.36.44%20AM.png?alt=media\&token=2e633ee0-d8a9-4637-a7f1-019d884cf549)

If you allow members to post announcements, you can additionally configure whether or not you'd like community administrators to have to moderate member-created announcements.

* Members will have the same options as administrators when creating announcements (e.g. to notify members of the community and to time release the announcement).
* If the announcement is to be moderated, members will be notified of that.

![Notice to member that announcement must be reviewed](https://3225702404-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LD7tTgZ-5g3UehqnyY6%2F-LVEBqpj_YLubN3y-RY_%2F-LVEDlZHxgJlNatjzgNb%2FScreen%20Shot%202019-01-02%20at%2010.40.41%20AM.png?alt=media\&token=c20c5b62-92f2-433b-8183-734eaad59395)

* If you are a community administrator, you will be alerted to announcements requiring review on the Announcements page.

![](https://3225702404-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LD7tTgZ-5g3UehqnyY6%2F-LVEBqpj_YLubN3y-RY_%2F-LVEE6H-RP32NEW881Qr%2FScreen%20Shot%202019-01-02%20at%2010.40.53%20AM.png?alt=media\&token=ebabb7ed-97ae-4a5e-9244-e6f70d774d7a)

* Click to view the announcements and release, edit, or delete them as appropriate.

![Moderating the member-created announcement](https://3225702404-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LD7tTgZ-5g3UehqnyY6%2F-LVEBqpj_YLubN3y-RY_%2F-LVEEN7qNITdYEPNKsJp%2FScreen%20Shot%202019-01-02%20at%2010.41.04%20AM.png?alt=media\&token=11f7d968-2ce8-42ec-a166-12295d9a7839)

* If you release an announcement, it will appear on the Announcements page for community members to view.

![Announcement once released](https://3225702404-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LD7tTgZ-5g3UehqnyY6%2F-LVEBqpj_YLubN3y-RY_%2F-LVEEmI3tEWsQAXHbERj%2FScreen%20Shot%202019-01-02%20at%2010.46.50%20AM.png?alt=media\&token=9002d0ce-3daa-4d68-8026-a720c82c48b2)

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