Bulletin board audiencesBulletin board audiencesYou can designate an audience that can view bulletin board messages in the Start Center. As a result, you can filter out the people who do not need to view a message. You can also restrict certain messages to authorized users.
You can select the audience for a message from an organization, a site, a person group, or a customer. If no audience is specified, any user who logs in to the system can view the message.
When a user opens the Start Center, all messages that the user can access are displayed.
The list of users who can view messages is always filtered by customer first. If a message audience includes one or more customers, a user must be authorized to access at least one of the customers. Otherwise, the user cannot view the message, regardless of any other audience settings. User access to customers is defined in the Security Groups (SP) application.
After user access is filtered based on the customers, or if no customers are specified in the audience, other audience filters are applied. A user can view a message in the Start Center if one of the following conditions is true:
The message audience includes one or more person groups and the person associated with the user belongs to at least one of the person groups. Users are associated with person records in the Users application. Person groups are created in the Person Groups (SP) application.
The message audience includes one or more sites and the user is authorized to access at least one of the sites. Users are granted access to sites in the Security Groups (SP) application.
The message audience includes one or more organizations and the user is authorized access to at least one of the organizations. Organizations are created in the Organizations (SP) application, and users are granted access to organizations in the Users application.
The message is a system-wide message and an audience is not specified.
Bulletin board messages can also be sent in an e-mail to people by using the Create Communication action. The audience that is listed on the bulletin board message can be used to filter the recipients of the e-mail.
Designate an Audience for a Bulletin Board Message