The Project announcements page provides a space for those milestones and articles that relate to a specific hosted project. These announcements are arranged according to date. Depending on the preferences of the Project owner, the items will appear either as links or as text.
If you would like to see the full article of any announcement, simply click on the link. You should be taken immediately to the article. If you are not, it is possible that the source site has discontinued the article. In this case, you should notify the Project owner.
Announcements featured on this page may include previously published articles, white papers, or any other documents that the Project owner has chosen to include here and make available to project members. Depending on how the Project owner has constructed these pages, there might be an archive of older announcements.
Note: A link posted to a published article does not constitute ownership. If you wish to distribute the article on your own, you must negotiate with the copyright owner.
An announcement can include any content that you want all of the members of your project to see. Announcements can include links to other project pages and announcements. By default, announcements are published immediately after they are approved and are not removed unless the Project owner elects to remove them.
Users with the "Project News - Suggest" permission can request that the project owner add announcements to the project's Announcements page. The project owner or another person with "Project News - Approve" permission must approve the announcement before it becomes visible to all project members. Users with both the "Project News - Approve" and "Project News - Suggest" permissions can add announcements directly, without submitting the announcement for approval prior to posting.
Any user with "Project News - Approve" permission can approve a suggested announcement. Project owners have this permission by default, however site administrators can grant that permission to any role.
You can include HTML in an announcement, as long as it conforms to HTML coding conventions for areas of the application that use an XSS filter.
Note: If your project role does not at minimum include the "Project News - Suggest" permission and you would like to include an announcement, you will need to contact the Project owner. Be sure to include the item's URL and a description when requesting that an item be included.
To suggest or add an announcement:
If you want to edit an announcement, click the Edit link against the announcement in the Announcements or View Announcement page, and click the Submit changes button. Here, you can change the Date of Event, Headline or other fields.
To delete an announcement permanently, click the Delete link against the annoucement in the Announcement or View Announcement page, and click the Submit changes button.
If you add HTML markup to an announcement, you should be aware of HTML coding conventions for project content.
Announcements can contain links to other project content, for example, another announcement or a document stored in the Documents & Files tool. If users click the link, the content is displayed.
To add a link to other project content in an announcement:
You can send announcements to an RDF Site Summary (RSS) reader. This enables you, as a guest user, to access public project announcements even if you are not logged in to CEE. To use this feature, you must first install an RSS reader, for example, SharpReader.
Note: The ability to access project announcements through an RSS reader assumes that the role of Anonymous User has the Project News - View permission. If you are unable to receive announcements in your RSS reader, your domain administrator may have disabled this permission.