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Announcement

Overview

Announcements contain information about planned maintenance work, current system failures, or other news that are relevant for your users. Announcements are displayed on the homepage of the Matrix42 Self Service Portal and in the Support > Announcements area.

To Create an Announcement

  1. Go to Service Desk and click Announcements in the navigation area. 
  2. Click Add Announcement at the top of the Announcements page. 

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General

Subject Subject or title of the announcement.
Message Text of the announcement, which will be displayed in the Matrix42 Self Service Portal and can be formatted as HTML.
Visibility Period during which this announcement will be displayed in the Matrix42 Self Service Portal.

Audience

Select the This Announcement is restricted checkbox if you want this announcement to be visible to entities added to the tables on the Audience dialog page: Organizational Units, Users, and/or Roles. 

Organizational Units Only users from named organizational units will see it in the Self Service Portal. 
Users The specified users will see the announcement in the Matrix42 Self Service Portal irrespective of their organizational unit. 
Roles Users that belong to the specified roles will see the announcement in the Matrix42 Self Service Portal irrespective of their organizational unit. 

Activities

Use the Activities dialog page to manage all Configuration Items that are related to this announcement. Activities are incidents, problems, changes, and tasks that are related to this announcement.

Actions

In the action pane, you can access the actions that are available for announcements.

Copy Announcement Copy this announcement and create a new announcement from it.
Edit Open the announcement for editing. 
Delete Delete the announcement. 
History View and export announcement related transactions. 
Export Export the announcement to an .xml file; select the Export N:M Relations checkbox to also export data about related objects with N to M, or many to many, relation. 
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