Part two · Author an announcement

6Creating and composing

New announcement asks for a title, then opens the announcement's record page. From there, Open Builder writes the pages, the Targeting tab chooses who and where, and Publish sends it. The first time the builder opens, it asks how to start:

Mode	What happens
From Scratch	One empty page to write in.
From another announcement	Copies the pages of one you can edit, with the files they show. The targeting, the settings and the attachments are not copied.
From PowerPoint	Drop a `.pptx`: each slide becomes one page, exactly as Salesforce renders it.

Page type	Accepted
Rich Text	Written in the builder
Image	`.png .jpg .jpeg .gif .webp`
Video	`.mp4 .mov .webm .ogg .m4v`, uploaded to Salesforce — not a link

The builder: an image page on the left, the page type and title on the right, page numbers and Copy, Paste, Delete below — The builder: the page on the left, its type and title on the right, the pages below. *Preview* shows it as a reader will, without recording anything.

Beside the title, two settings for the whole announcement:

Allow questions, on by default: readers can ask the author a question from the announcement (section 9).
Readers must confirm, off by default: the last page carries I have read and understood this announcement, and the announcement keeps coming back until the reader ticks it.

Related files, in the builder, attaches documents readers can open beside the pages.

Priority#

Standard or Critical. A Critical announcement comes first, is marked in red, and offers no Later. Only the Administrator group, or an author given Announcement Critical Priority, can set it; everyone else sees the priority read only.