Announcements

The Announcements Control aggregates the latest non expired announcements that the user has read access to.

The Announcements Control is often used as part of the Notification Panel, for example:

The Announcements Control can also be added as a block anywhere on a page.

Settings for the control

When the Announcements control is added on a page, the following settings are available:

The General tab

• Row Limit: Set the maximum number of announcements to display in the list.
• Day Limit: Set the number of days for how old an announcement is allowed to be, to be shown in the list. This is based on the modified date for the announcement.
• View: Select to view the announcements in a single list, in time order or grouped by site.
• Always Show Letter Avatar: Select this option if letter avatars should be used. (In the top image, avatars is used.)
• Include Team News: Team News is the type of news that can be created in a modern team site. If these news messages should be included, select this option.

The Custom colors tab

You should primarily set colors through Theme colors in Omnia Admin (System/Settings/Default colors). If you still would like custom colors for the control, you can set them here.