We've got some new news about News! (Sorry, sometimes I just can't resist a corny intro). 🙃
-Vince
In the spotlight 🌟
News: Action Bar
You may have noticed that the action bar above the News view recently got a bit of a makeover. Besides finally getting its own heading, the bar's menus have been reconfigured and all of them are now located on the far right side (see below). So here's a quick breakdown of what's behind these three icons! 👇
Create New Item (the "+") is where you indicate the type of News item you want to publish. Just click to open the menu and select!
Filter (the "funnel") lets you to choose what types of items you want displayed in the News view and how you want them sorted.
More (the "three dots") combines the old Manage menu with the Admins menu. It's where News Admins can access the lists of your org's published, scheduled, drafted, and archived items, as well as view and download metrics reports. Reporters and Editors can also be assigned and managed via this menu.
And there you have it! Everything's nice and tidy and easy to find in the NEW News action bar!
On the platform 💻
Profiles: Employee ID
An optional Employee ID field was recently added to Profiles. System Administrators can manually edit any user's Profile to update this field and its visibility to others.
Alternatively, they can update this data in bulk for their whole org via the relevant "EmployeeID" fields in the CSV import (Admin Settings > User Data...> Extract/Manage All User Data).
QUICK TIP
Did you know that you can collapse the side category column in Discussions so only your list of chats is visible? Just click on the "<" in the action bar and everything will shift over to the left!
