November 3rd 2021, Release Note: Mobile | Engage 2.11.0: Ability to Hide the Title in Announcements – Fourth & HotSchedules Customer Success Portal

Summary

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Feature 1

Ability to Hide the Title in Announcements

The ability to add a title to an announcement but hide it from the announcement carousel

Release date: 3rd November 2021

Ability to Hide the Title in Announcements

Enabled by Default? - Yes
Set up by customer Admin? - Yes
Enable via Support ticket? - No
Affects configuration or data? - No
Roles Affected: Customer Admins

What's Changing?

The ability to add a title to an announcement but hide it from the announcement carousel
Minor UI refresh/update on existing pages

Reason for the Change?

Having a title in an announcement is useful as it is included in the push notification sent to users and is also displayed within the detail of the announcement and on the min feed when expired announcements are shown.

However, it is not always appropriate to show the announcement title on the announcement carousel as many customers create images for their announcements that include all of the required text. The ability to hide an announcement title from the announcement carousel addresses this issue and allows users to specify a title for an announcement to be used everywhere except in the announcement carousel.

Customers Affected

All Engage customers

Release Note Info/Steps

When creating or editing an announcement within the Admin section of Engage there is a field to enter a title. The title entered is used for the following:

Included in the push notification letting users know about the new announcement
Included in the carousel at the top of the feed which displays the announcements
Shown in the detail of an announcement when a user clicks into an announcement
Shown as the title of the announcement when an expired announcement is displayed in the feed

There is now a new option Hide Title. When ticked the title will not be shown in the carousel (point 2) but will continue to be used in the push notifications (1), the announcement detail (3) and the main feed (4)

Fig.1 – New option to hide the announcement title from the announcement carousel