Announcement
Announcement is where HR puts the notices everybody should see when they sign in: the Eid holiday schedule, the new canteen timing, the annual medical camp. Each notice has a title, some wording, an optional picture, and a date it stops showing itself.
What it is for
Notices on a wall only reach the people who walk past the wall. This screen puts the same notice in front of everybody who signs in.
There is one record per company, and the notices are lines inside it. That is deliberate: HR does not create a record per announcement, they open their company and add a line. Old notices stay on the list so there is a history of what was announced and when.
A notice stops showing in two ways. Untick Active to pull it down at once, or set Active Till so it takes itself down on the right day. Use Active Till for anything with a date in it, so nobody is still reading last Eid's schedule in November.
Every field, in plain words
Header
| Field | What it means | What to put in it | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal Entity | The company whose staff see these notices. | Ravi Textile Mills (Pvt) Ltd | Required. There is one announcement record per company. |
Announcement
One line per notice.
| Field | What it means | What to put in it | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Announcement Title | The headline staff see. | Eid ul Fitr holidays, 29 March to 1 April | Required. Keep it to one line. It is the part most people will read. |
| Announcement Description | The body of the notice. | The factory will be closed from 29 March to 1 April. The shipping office will run a skeleton shift on 31 March. Normal operations resume on 2 April. | Required. |
| Announcement Image | A picture to show with the notice. | The holiday notice as a scanned circular, or the medical camp poster | Optional. Leave it blank for a plain text notice. |
| Active | Whether the notice is showing now. | Tick it when you want it up. Untick it to pull it down. | |
| Active Till | The last day the notice shows itself. | 02-04-2026 | Leave it blank for a notice with no end date, such as a canteen timing. |
How to configure it
- Make sure the company exists on Legal Entity.
- Open Announcement. If a record already exists for the company, edit it rather than creating a second one.
- Pick the Legal Entity.
- Add a line. Type the title and the body.
- Attach a picture if there is one.
- Tick Active, and set Active Till to the day after the notice stops being relevant.
- Save. Sign in as an ordinary user and check the notice appears.
Scenarios
"We want the Eid holiday schedule up for everybody"
One line. Title with the dates in it, body with the detail about which departments still run a shift, Active ticked, and Active Till set to the first working day back. It takes itself down.
"The canteen timing has changed and it needs to stay up"
One line with Active ticked and Active Till left blank. It stays until somebody unticks Active.
"Two companies in the group and the notices are different"
One record per company. Each company's staff see only their own company's lines.
What it is connected to
- Needs Legal Entity, because a notice belongs to a company.
- Nothing else in PeopleNest reads what you enter here. It is a one way message to staff.
If something looks wrong
- "The save says the company cannot be empty" - Legal Entity was left blank. A notice has to belong to a company.
- "Staff still see an old notice" - Active is still ticked and Active Till is blank or in the future.
- "A notice I added is not showing" - Active is not ticked, or Active Till is already in the past.