Create Quick Post in Employee App

Appspace enables Publishers and Authors to quickly create posts within the Appspace Employee App, providing an improved content creation workflow experience that allows authors to quickly post articles with text and media without the need to leave the Employee App (and go to the Appspace console).

Authors, Publishers, and Account Owners can create the post, upload media, and publish it to a channel, directly from the Home dashboard or from within any channel in the Employee App. The Appspace platform will automatically translate the post’s content to digital signage and enterprise messaging formats. Users may create a post with any of these combinations:

• Video + Article: Plays only the video in a signage playlist.
• Image + Article: Generates a card with an image and article.
• Article Only: Generates a card with the article.

This article provides instructions to create and publish posts in Appspace Employee App.

Prerequisites

• Account Owner, Publisher, or Author with channel publishing permissions.
• Premium user license to access the Appspace Employee App.
• A channel must include at least one playlist for the Quick Post functionality to be shown.
• Supported file types:
  • Images: JPEG, PNG, and GIF
  • Video: only MP4

Create Post

Follow the instructions below to create a post in your Employee App:

1. Log in to your Appspace Employee App.
2. To create a post, in the Home tab you can either click the + sign next to the notifications bell button or click the “What do you want to share?” text box.
   
   • You may also click the Upload media icon to upload media such as images and videos, or
   • Click the Attachment link icon to upload a file.
3. In the Create Post window, click the Select a channel drop-down menu to select the desired channel.
   
   
4. Click the Now field to set the post schedule and proceed to step 5 below. Alternatively, just click the Setting button.
5. In the Post Settings you may set the following:
   • Publish to Channels – Choose the channels where the post will be shared.
   • Author – Choose the author you want to appear in the post.
   • Schedule – Set the date when the post should be visible.
   • Tags – You may include any relevant tags in the post.
     
     
6. Click the “What do you want to share?” text to type in a post title.
7. Click the “Tell us more…” text to type in your post content.
8. Click the Photo/Video button on your left below to add an image or video.
   Note

   We support .jpeg, .png, and .gif image formats. For video, only .mp4 files are supported.
9. Click the Post button.
10. Your post will be published under the News section on the Home tab.

Post Reactions

You can now react to any quick post in your Employee App, with “Like,” “Love,” “Laugh,” “Celebrate,” “Surprise,” “Sad,” emoticons, to express your emotions regarding the message content.

 You can: 

• React to any post in the main news feed or channel feed.
• React to the post from inside the post article view.
• Add, change, or remove a reaction to a post. You just need to tap on the reaction button to like a post, and tap it again to unlike. When reacting to a post with a single tap, the Like reaction is the default selection.
• See how many reactions a post has received. Just tap on the number of reactions on a post to view a list of everyone who has reacted to the post.

Reactions Notifications

You are now able to receive notifications when a post gets a reaction. When the Notifications bell button is clicked, the Notifications dropdown opens to show the list of notifications.

Comments and Share on Post

As an Employee App user, you can post to and comment on feeds. All comments to the post will be communicated to the author of the post via the notification. Post authors have the option to moderate or remove comments made on their posts.  Additionally, Employee App users can copy the URL of a post’s detail page and share its contents. The user can share the URL of a post if the share setting is enabled.

Reactions to comments added to posts are now available. Users are now able to click on the responses to the comments.

User Mentions in Comments

The User Mentions in comments feature improves employee engagement by allowing users to mention other employees in comments on multiple posts or pages. Users who have been tagged receive notifications in their User Notifications within the Appspace Employee app.

Create Event Post

Follow the instructions below to create a post to announce events in your Employee App:

1. Log in to your Appspace Employee App.
2. In the Home tab, click the “What do you want to share?” text box. Alternatively, go to More > Events and click the Create button.
3. In the Create Post window, select the Event Post icon below the Create Post icon.
   
   
4. In the Event Post window, customize according to preference.
   
   
   
   You may do any of the following:
   1. • Select the desired channel.
      • Click the Now field to set the post schedule or alternatively, just click the Setting button. Refer to step 5 in the Create Post section above.
      • Click Upload Cover to upload an image for the event.
      • Type in an Event title.
      • Set the date.
      • Select the starting time and ending time. Alternatively, if you check the All day event check box, select the start date and end date, then click Apply to set the date range of the event.
        
      • Type-in and select a location for the event.
      • In the Description text box, you can add additional details.
5. Click Publish. Your post will appear in the News section on the Home tab as well as in the More > Events section.
   
   
6. Refer to the Edit Post section for instructions on how to edit or remove your event post.

Edit Post

To update a post, navigate to the News or Channels section of your Employee App. From there, you can edit any post you find there.

Edit Post in News

Follow the instructions below to edit any post in your Employee App:

1. To edit, navigate to your desired post in the Home > News section.
2. Click on the ellipsis next to a post and select Edit. You can also delete your post by clicking the Remove button.
   
   
3. Proceed to edit the content and click Save.
   

Edit Post in Channels

Follow the instructions below to edit any post in your Employee App:

1. To edit, navigate to your desired post in More > Channels.
2. Select the post you desire to edit in Groups or Channels.
3. Click on the ellipsis next to a post and select Edit. You can also delete your post by clicking the Remove button.
   
   
4. Proceed to edit the content and click Save.

Create Page

Follow the instructions below to create a page in your Employee App:

1. Log in to your Appspace Employee App.
2. To create a page, in the Home tab click the + sign next to the notifications bell button and select Page.
   
   
3. In the Page window, you may do the following to create your desire article:
   • Upload image for banner.
   • Specify the title for the page.
   • Add content to the page.
   • Add the tag.
4. In the Settings panel, you may do the following:
   
   • Schedule:
     • Immediately : This page will go live immediately to its audience once you publish it.
     • Scheduled : You can set a specific date and time to schedule the publishing of this page.
   • Topics: Choose a topic for this page to effectively organize and publish it for the intended audience.
   • Author : You may assign an author to the page.
   • Tags : Assign tags to this page to facilitate organization and search functionality.
   • Social : You may configure this page’s social settings below:
     • Reactions: Inherit (On) by default , On, Off
     • Comments: Inherit (On) by default , On, Off
     • Share: Inherit (On) by default , On, Off
5. Once done, click the Publish button to publish the page.
6. You may delete the page by clicking the ellipsis next to the settings button.