Managing Announcements

You can perform various operations on an announcement such as creating an announcement, viewing an announcement, updating an announcement, deleting an announcement, and assigning documents, models, items of equipment and locations (of type Availability) to an announcement.

Context

You use the Announcements application to work with an announcement. You can perform the following operations using the Announcements application:

  • Create an announcement (see, Creating an Announcement)

  • View and publish an announcement (see, Viewing and Publishing an Announcement)

  • Update an announcement (see, Updating an Announcement)

  • Delete an announcement (see, Deleting an Announcement)

  • Assign business objects to an announcement (see, Assigning a Model to an Announcement)

  • Display report cards on the header and view the count of <Equipment Impacted> and <Customers Impacted>.

  • Maintain serial number ranges and build date ranges for announcement types <Service Bulletin> and <Recall>. You can add serialization ranges on the service bulletin or recall by:

    • Enabling <Serialization Ranges> (in announcement header)

    • Maintaining the serialization ranges (serial numbers, batch date) and also comments in the< Serialization Ranges> section on announcement

  • Add announcement to a group.