Aurora: Send a broadcast message
If you have the Send broadcast private messages permission (see Permission descriptions), you can send a broadcast message. These messages are delivered as announcements, and those who receive one cannot see the rest of the recipient list (this is in contrast to multi-user private messages, in which the recipient list can be seen by all those who received it). Broadcast messages have a limit of 10,000 recipients.
Refer to About the Inbox for more information about the Inbox.
To send a broadcast message:
- Sign in to the community and click Inbox (envelope icon).
- In the left panel, click Create (pencil icon).
- On the Create New Message window, turn on the Send as a Broadcast Message option.
- In the To field, enter the username of the people to whom you want to send a message. When you start typing a name, search results related to that name display so that you can select the correct person from the list.
- In the Subject field, enter a subject for your message.
Note: “Announcement” is appended to the beginning of all broadcast message subjects. - In the content editor, enter your message. See About the Content Editor for more information.
- Click Send Message.
You can view the sent messages in your Sent folder by clicking Inbox in the left panel and selecting Sent. To send a follow-up message from here, enter another response in the Reply… field.
When someone receives a broadcast message, “Announcement” always precedes the subject given to the message. Additionally, a microphone icon displays at the bottom right of the sender’s avatar.