Notify other digital workplace members of important content by broadcasting it with a custom message. Broadcasts arrive as email notifications outside the platform, messages inside the digital workplace, and items in the mobile app's Notifications tab to targeted group members. Users can then select the link in the broadcast to go to that location in the digital workplace.
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Considerations
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Content types: The content types can be broadcasted:
- Channels (existing)
- Pages (existing)
- Space homepages (existing)
- Member Directory page (existing)
- Pulse page (existing)
- Blog articles (new and existing)
- Calendar events (new and existing)
- Files and folders (existing)
- Microblog post (existing)
- Forum topics (new and existing)
- Wiki articles (new and existing)
- Receiving broadcasts: If a user is a member of multiple groups that have been selected to receive a broadcast, they will only receive one broadcast notification.
- Digital workplace notifications: If a digital workplace's notifications are turned off, a broadcast email notification will not be sent. However, the broadcast will still populate in their messages.
- Broadcast option visibility: If you do not have an appropriate level or role, the broadcast option will not be visible.
Who can do this?
- Enterprise Administrators
- Workplace Administrators
- Members of groups with the Broadcast to your groups or the Broadcast to all groups role
Broadcast new content
When creating new blog articles, events, forum topics, and wiki articles, content creators in a group with a broadcast role can access the broadcast option under Advanced Options.
- When creating new content, scroll down to Advanced Options.
- Select Broadcast.
- Search for and select the groups to which you want to send a broadcast notification. For users with the broadcast role, the groups and the total number of recipients available to be broadcasted may vary due to your digital workplace's broadcast policies. See Configuring broadcasts for more information on broadcast limitations.
- Enter a brief message to include in the notification using the editor. This message cannot exceed 10,000 characters (this includes characters found in the HTML).
Your digital workplace will send this broadcast to the selected groups when the content is published.
Broadcast existing content
- Navigate to the content.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and select Broadcast.
- Search for and select the groups to which you want to send a broadcast notification. For users with the broadcast role, the groups and the total number of recipients available to be broadcasted may vary due to your digital workplace's broadcast policies. See Configuring broadcasts for more information on broadcast limitations.
- Enter a brief message to include in the notification using the editor. This message cannot exceed 10,000 characters (this includes characters found in the HTML).
- Select Send.