Begin of the insertion# Option A: Enhance the New module and replace the announcement feature

## Use case 1: Global announcement

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**I want to** publish announcements/news to all users
**so that** I can easily inform them about informations like:

* Downtimes
* New features
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* Process-related changes

**Acceptance criteria**

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* Begin of the insertionAdd a create button to the [global news view](https://community.openproject.org/news).
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* Show news only for a limited time period.
* Disable comments on a specific news.
* For every news a notification is created.
* A news is journalized.
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## Use case 2: Project announcement

**As** a project admin/project manager
**I want to** publish announcements/news to my project team
**so that** I can easily inform them about informations like.

* New project team member.
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Begin of the insertion**Acceptance criteria** 

* Project announcements create a notification for all project members.

# Option B: Enhance theEnd of the insertion Announcement Begin of the insertionfeature

The existing [announcement feature](https://www.openproject.org/docs/system-admin-guide/announcement/) is extended to create notifications for each announcement.

* An announcement has also a subject (currently an announcement is one text box only).
* For each change of an announcement a notification is created.
* The subject is shown as a notification row in the main part of the notification centre.
* The announcement description is shown in the split view.End of the insertion Begin of the deletion feature: https://www.openproject.org/docs/system-admin-guide/announcement/End of the deletion