First Class Modules

Company news

Publishes searchable internal announcements with draft, scheduled, published, and expired visibility, author controls, custom fields, relationships, activity, and favorites.

Use Company News for controlled organization-wide or location-scoped announcements such as policy changes, releases, leadership updates, closures, and internal notices.

What it does

Publishes searchable internal announcements with draft, scheduled, published, and expired visibility, author controls, custom fields, relationships, activity, and favorites.

Key capabilities

• Search visible announcements and open their secured detail.
• Author and edit announcements only when the response grants edit permission.
• Control draft, scheduled, published, and expired visibility.
• Connect announcements to records, activity, custom fields, and personal favorites.

Common uses

• Internal news and release announcements.
• Location-specific closures, safety notices, or operating updates.
• Policy and program communications linked to supporting records or files.

How it connects

Announcements can link to Knowledge Articles, Files, Web Links, and other records for durable supporting detail. Notifications can call attention to a published announcement without replacing the announcement itself.

Where applicable, its records use the universal RecordId conventions so they can participate in secured relationships, activity history, favorites, dynamic fields, notifications, Inbox attention, and global search without copying the source record.

Security and data boundary

Publication state, SaaS, tenant, DataRole, and location are evaluated by secured reads. Announcement bodies render as escaped text, and authoring controls depend on server-reported permission.

• The authenticated service derives the SaaS app, tenant account, user, DataRole, and location scope; browser identifiers are never authorization proof.
• The page editor composes React components with validated data bindings. Those bindings call typed runtime APIs, whose application services execute reviewed stored procedures.
• List, search, detail, relation, activity, favorite, and write operations reapply their required server-side permissions.

Add it to an app

1. Open the SaaS app in the Developer Console and identify the user journey and page where this module belongs.
2. Add the validated module.company-news module block through the supported page/template authoring flow.
3. Configure the module with the page editor's React components and validated data bindings; the bindings call authenticated platform APIs backed by reviewed stored procedures.
4. Place the page in the correct user-type menus and assign existing DataRole, record, field, and location permissions.
5. Test list, detail, search, empty, denied, stale-update, and cross-location behavior before publishing an exact version.