Employee Community Post Overview
What are Employee Community posts?
Purpose: To help you understand how to create and understand Employee Community posts.
Table of Contents
Create a post
There are different ways to locate the Post Compose form in order to publish a post on the Employee Community.
The New Post button in Employee Community is the most common way. You can find this button within a feed* in Employee Community, and clicking on it will automatically open a new Post Compose form.
*The option to add a new post in a group feed is only available if the user has access to create posts within the group.
Another way is to click on the New Post button located within the Employee Community widget on your BambooHR homepage. This will open a new Post Compose form as well.
Post Compose form
Every post will have a title, body, and a topic/group. When you go to create a new post, you will start with a blank Post Compose form.
Posts have a multitude of components you can add, such as formatting, images, documents, videos, audio clips, GIFs, emojis, calendar events, polls, and surveys. The toolbar at the top of each Post Compose form allows you to add these components and includes the following options:
- Text formatting
- Bullet and numbered lists
- Emojis
- Hyperlinks
- Images
- GIFs
- Attachments*
- Events
- Polls
- *There is no restriction on file types you can upload (unless an admin has restricted specific file types in your organization's settings). The most common file types we see are .jpeg, .png, .docx, .xcl, .pdf, .mp3, .mp4, etc.
- Uploaded files cannot exceed 2 GB within one post.
Any post created will be autosaved as you are creating the post. If you are not ready to publish it just yet, you can click Save & Close at the bottom of the Post Compose form, and the drafted post will show up in your Drafts tab.
Publish a post
To publish your post, click Continue, select the group topic, and then click Share Post. Your post is now published and will show in the corresponding feeds.
You will need to assign the post at least one group topic before publishing it. If a group does not have any added topics, you will receive a prompt to post it under the group's General topic (default). You can also share a single post across multiple groups. If someone is part of multiple groups where you share the same post, they will only get one email notification and see it appear in their feed once.