Under Operations > Announcements, you can create building announcements and push them to:

• Roamer and Flex
• Inspire (scrolling news in portrait orientation)

On the Announcements page, you will see the list of existing announcements, both active and expired, within your organisation for the selected building.

You can do the following:

• Search for a certain announcement.
• Adjust date range to view results for today, tomorrow, this week, next week, this month, next month, or a custom date range.
• Filter the table results by:
  • Broadcast means: Inspire or Roamer and Flex
  • Status: active or expired
  • Created By
• Add or delete an announcement.
• Duplicate an existing one.
• Set the status to EXPIRE for an active announcement.

Adding an announcement

For Roamer and Flex

Add the following details about your announcement:

1. Announcement Title
2. Short Description
3. Announcement text. See this article about proper HTML formatting of your announcement: Why is the HTML formatting not saved in the System Notification and Announcement message field? 
4. Add a header image. Select it from existing images or upload a new one from your computer.
5. Add labels:
   1. Custom: additional field to name the label will be displayed with the limit for 12 characters.
   2. High priority label. In this case, users of Flex and Roamer will see the red High lable next to your announcement.
      
6. Message Schedule: date range when the announcement should be active.
7. Save as Draft or Publish Announcement.
   ⚠️Warning: For now, announcements are immediately published and are not saved as drafts.

For Inspire

To display your announcement as a scrolling text on Inspire that is set to Portrait mode, define the following:

1.  Announcement Title
2. Scrolling Message
3. Message Schedule: date range when the announcement should be active.
4. Save as Draft or Publish Announcement.
   ⚠️Warning: For now, announcements are immediately published and are not saved as drafts.

Duplicating an announcement

If there're more than one building within your organisation, you can duplicate announcements to other buildings. To do this:

1. Select the row with an existing announcement.
2. Click the DUPLICATE button in the top right of the announcements list. A Create Duplicate popup opens.
    
3. Select one or more buildings to duplicate this announcement to.
4. Edit details if applicable:
   1. (optional) Define a new name for it.
   2. (optional) Define the new start and end date and time for it.
5. Click Duplicate to save your changes.