Activating or Deactivating Announcements (Confluence)

Activating or Deactivating Announcements (Confluence)

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Annoucement States

Announcements can either be active, scheduled, or inactive.

announcement status
  • Active announcements are the ones currently being shown to users.

  • Scheduled announcements are not currently shown to users, but are scheduled to be shown to users at a future date.

  • Inactive announcements typically have an expired scheduling date, and are not shown to users.

 

Changing an Announcemnet State

Use the scheduling Start date and End date fields to modify the state of your annoucenments..

annoucnement scheduling

To move a scheduled announcement to be active, simply change or remove the schedule.

To make an inactive announcement active again, either remove the schedule, or change it to fall into the current date.

 

Deactivating Announcements

To deactivate an announcement, use the "deactivate" action from the menu dropdown.

deactivate announmcent action

The status of deactivated announcements becomes disabled.

deactivated announcemnet status

 

Activating Announcements

activating announcement action

Activate an announcement from the actions menu. The status of reactivated announcements becomes active.

activated announcement status