Sharing a Post on Employee Community is simple. Whether you're sharing a quick text update, an important file, or a long-form newsletter, our Post compose form makes it easy to add and format content. Here's how.
To create a new Post.
From any Feed page, click the orange, new Post button in the bottom, right-hand corner of your screen. A blank, Post compose form will open.
Add your content. Type in your title, text, and add any additional rich content that you'd like, including files, photos, videos, gifs, emojis, and more. Learn more about the types of content you can add in the sections below.
To format your text.
Using the editing toolbar at the top of the page, you can edit your text to include...
Headers.
Bold text.
Italic text.
Bulleted and numbered lists.
Horizontal lines.
Hyperlinks.
Emojis.
GIFs.
Attachments.
Code/markdown.
Events.
Polls.
To embed a URL.
Click into the Post body area.
Copy and paste the URL that you'd like to share.
If your URL is on a line of its own, your URL will likely embed a nicely formatted URL card. However, if it does not automatically embed, click your link to open the link formatting options and then click Embed.
To attach a file.
Employee Community allows you to attach and embed all kinds of files, including Word documents, PDFs, slide shows, videos, photos, excel docs, and much more. To attach a file to a Post...
Click the paperclip button in the editing toolbar.
Select the type of attachment from the dropdown menu. You can select attachments from your computer, Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive.
Follow the directions from the selected attachment to locate your file.
Once the file is selected, it will beautifully embed in your Employee Community Post.
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To embed an Event or Poll widget.
Our interactive widgets make it fun and easy for employees to view and save Events and participate in Polls.
Click the calendar or Poll icon button in the editing toolbar.
Fill in the information for the Event or Poll.
To add more than one Poll to your Post, click the Poll icon at the top header. Please note you can only add one Event per Post.
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To publish your Post.
When you're set with your Post, it's time to publish.
Click the Continue button at the top, right-hand corner of your Post composition form.
Select the Group and Topic for your Post. You can select more than one Group and Topic.
Then, click the blue Share to... button.
Your Post is now published. It will be visible to your colleagues and sent as an email notification to anyone who has selected to receive instant email notifications.
To save your Post as a draft.
If you're not quite ready to publish your Post, you're in luck. As you've been composing, your Post has been auto-saving as a draft.
If you are ready to save your Post as a draft, simply click the close button at the top, left-hand corner of the page. The Post will then save as a draft.
To locate the drafts, click the home button located on your top navigation bar.
Then, click Drafts in the dropdown menu. Please note, If you do not have any drafts in this folder you will not see this label.
Click into your saved drafts to continue editing and publish when you're ready.