Send Announcements to Apps
About this task
Use announcements to send messages to apps, notifying users of useful information.
Note: Announcements are app specific, you cannot publish one announcement across multiple apps.
To create an announcement for an app:
Procedure
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Open the Apps tab and select the published app where you want to post an announcement.
You can only send announcements to published apps.
- Click Announcements view. to open the
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Click New Announcement to open the Create Announcement dialog box.
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Add a title for the announcement and enter content for the body of your announcement in the Message field.
Announcements support rich-text formatting. You can also embed images.
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Once you're satisfied with the content of your announcement, click Create and Publish.
Select Create if you want to save a draft of the announcement without publishing it to the app.
Results
Published announcements will be visible within the relevant app. App users will see a red notification dot once they launch the app. The announcement will remain available until the app user deletes it from the app.