Overview: Engagement allows you to create and publish news posts, which are a great way to share information or any news about the company.
Start from: The Engagement Dashboard.
- Select Communication > Publications on the main menu.
- Select + New Communication > In Channel.
Within the News Builder, complete the fields below:
Step 1 - Setup
General Setup
- Assign a name to your news post in the Title* field.
- Select a Channel* from the dropdown menu.
- Type the name of the Author*.
- Select if you want to Pin the communication.
Notes: If you activate this option, this news will remain fixed at the top of the channel. You can pin more than one news from the same channel. It will also appear pinned to the Latest Post channel. It will also appear pinned to the Latest Post channel.
- Determine if you want to Notify your audience about this new communication. You can send notifications through Email, Push notification, Show in Mapal One home carousel.
Interactions
- Decide if you want to enable the interactions that employees will be able to make. The possible interactions are:
- Comments
- Likes
- Dislikes
- Read confirmation
Audience
- Select here the employees that you want to give access. You can provide access to:
- Employees by Level
- Employees by Job
- Employees by Department
- Additional employees
- Upload a file of emails
Step 2 - Content
Summary
- Write a brief description that will appear in the channel feed as a summary of the content.
Notes: You can write a maximum of 250 characters.
Body*
- Write here the content of the communication. You can drag images and add links. This is a rich text field.
Cover image
- Add an image and/or video if you wish. If you add both, the image will be displayed as a thumbnail.
You can add portrait-oriented images as cover images for news and forum posts. A new option in the crop tool allows you to select either landscape or portrait orientation.
Notes: Portrait images will display fully in the Mapal One feed. However, for tiles and carousels, portrait images will automatically be cropped to a 16:9 landscape format, with the focus on the centre of the image.
Attachments
- Upload attachments to your news post. You can Upload the following file formats: PDF, DOC, DOCX, CSV, XLS, XLSX (max. 10MB)
Video
- You can also upload a video to your news post. You can directly upload the file from your device or embed a video link from Vimeo or YouTube.
Notes: Only one video can be uploaded, so you will have these two options for uploading. Once you upload a video one way, the other way will be blocked.
Step 3 - Publish
- Select if you want to save the news post as a draft or publish it. You can decide here when will you publish it too.
- Once you complete the configuration, select Save to complete the publication.
Notes: All fields maked with an asterisk (*) are mandatory.