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Post an Announcement to a Chatter Group
Post group announcements to highlight important messages on the group page.
Required Editions
| Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience |
| Available in: Essentials, Group, Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, Contact Manager, and Developer Editions |
Only group owners, group managers, and users with the “Modify All Data” permission can post and delete group announcements.
- On the group page, click Announcement in the publisher.
- Enter your announcement. The character limit is 5,000, and you can include links or mention users and groups. Because of space constraints, approximately 137 characters of the announcement appears on the group page. Users can click More to see the rest of the message.
- Specify an expiration date for the announcement.
- Click Share.
A group announcement appears until 11:59 p.m. on the selected expiration date, unless a new group announcement replaces it. In the group feed, users can discuss, like, and post comments on announcements. When you post an announcement, group members receive an email notification, just like they do for other posts, depending on their notification settings.
Deleting the feed post deletes the announcement. From Salesforce Classic, you can remove
the announcement from the group page without deleting the feed post. Click 
in the top corner of the announcement, and then select the option to dismiss the
banner.
Send Email Notifications for Announcements
For group announcements, group owners and managers can send email notifications to all group members, despite the members’ notification settings. Previously, only group members who opted to be notified for each post in the group were notified. Group owners and managers require the “Send announcement emails” permission to use the send email feature. To notify all group members, select Email all group members next to the announcement expiration date.
