A post puts an update in the Overview feed straight away. Before you publish, decide who may read it and whether Begin should actively notify anybody.
Your workspace needs the Messages and Posts add-on, and your role needs Create posts. If
Post opens an add-on prompt or the composer is absent, ask a workspace administrator to check
the subscription and your role.
Publish the update
1
Open Overview
Go to Overview and find Share an update with your team… above the feed. From any page,
you can also open Actions & search and choose New post, which opens Overview (Home on a
phone) with the composer ready to type in.
2
Write and organise it
Add the update. You can choose a category, attach files or save the work as a draft instead of
publishing it. A picture you paste joins the attachments, like a file you pick. A link in the
text shows its preview below the post; choose ✕ to leave the previews out, or hide them later
from Edit. A draft keeps that choice when you come back to it.
3
Choose Visibility
Leave Visibility at Everyone, or select one or more locations, departments and
positions. A person who matches any selected group can read the post.
4
Choose Notify
Notify starts at Everyone, which alerts everybody who can see the post. Narrow it to one
location, one department or one position, or clear it to publish without a notification.
5
Post
Check both controls, then choose Post. The update appears in the feed immediately.
The composer shows Visibility and Notify as separate decisions
Keep access and alerts separate
Visibility controls access. Notify chooses one audience for the publish alert. Publishing with Notify cleared still adds the post to every permitted reader’s feed. Begin also filters the notification audience through Visibility, so an alert does not lead somebody to a post they cannot open. People who manage posts can see every scoped post, even when they do not match its location, department or position. Treat that permission as oversight access when you choose a sensitive audience.Change the post later
The author can edit their own post. Extra role permissions control editing other people’s posts, deleting posts and pinning them. Deleting is permanent, including the discussion attached to the post. Begin AI can also publish a post with a category, poll and attendance question, publish one of your saved drafts with its own, and edit a post, including those settings. It can save your draft, keep it as a saved draft, edit a saved draft and delete one. Its approval card names who will see the post and who it notifies before anything is published or changed, and deleting a saved draft asks first.Next
Polls and events
Add a decision or attendance question before you publish.
Checking post engagement
Follow who read and responded after it goes out.
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