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

  1. Open the Apps tab and select the published app where you want to post an announcement.
    You can only send announcements to published apps.
  2. Click More > Announce to open the Announcements view.
  3. Click New Announcement to open the Create Announcement dialog box.
    New announcement button
  4. 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.
  5. 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.