The reading side
Announcements is your notice board, newest first. You see the org-wide notices, plus those of your branch and of the branches you cover — or, if you post org-wide or hold Moderate messages, every branch’s. Once the feed has loaded, every announcement you can see is marked read at once.
An announcement that requires acknowledgement carries an Acknowledge button; once you press it, it turns into Acknowledged. Same idea as a task’s Got it: it is a record that you read and agreed — not a notification to swat away.
The posting side
Company ▸ Announcements is the publisher’s desk:
- Post an announcement — a Title and a Body, the Location (the audience), and the Require acknowledgement switch. Your permission decides the locations offered: branch-level posting offers only your branch and the branches you cover; org-wide posting adds Entire organization, and every branch.
- Edit — author only, and only until the first acknowledgement lands. The reason is worth remembering: an acknowledgement records the exact text someone agreed to — if the text could move afterwards, the acknowledgement would mean nothing. So title and body are editable (at zero acks), and the audience and the ack requirement are never editable.
- Retract — the author or anyone holding Moderate messages can retract, in two clicks: Retract, then Confirm retract. Which is why an acknowledged item shows Retract but not Edit.
- Clicking a notice’s title in the table opens its panel: the body, the author’s Edit, and, on an ack-required notice, the Who has acknowledged list — where the author sees who acknowledged and when. The table’s Acknowledged column is only the count.