Setup employee communications

  • Release version: Yokohama
  • Updated January 30, 2025
  • 1 minute to read
  • Inform and engage your employees.

    Employee Center Pro provides a robust suite of features to create, publish, and manage employee communications in a variety of content types and delivery channels. Follow these steps to setup employee communications features:
    1. Make Content Publishing features available to content managers and employees: Properties installed with Content Publishing.
    2. Set up content translation (optional): Configure Localization Framework for Content Publishing
    3. Customize the out-of-the-box widgets (optional):

      To view all the widgets installed with Content Publishing, see the widgets section of Components installed with Content Publishing.

      For information on translating custom widgets, see Translate a client script message

      To publish content to a custom widget, you must define the content type and associate it with your custom widget: Add or modify content type for Content Publishing

    4. Review the Employee communications features table below and configure the features relevant to your use case.
    Table 1. Employee communications features
    Feature Description Used with
    Content Ownership Define who has permission to create content, where they can publish it, and which employees can view it. All employee communications
    Content templates Create a content template to enable content managers to create and publish higher volumes of news article content News articles
    Content engagement Enable Content engagement to provide users with a way to comment and react to news articles and for managers to measure the effectiveness of their content using engagement metrics. News articles
    Video hosting integrations framework Connect Content Publishing with a video hosting service, to make the hosted videos available for content authoring and publishing. Microsites/Rich content
    Reusable components Configure the following reusable components:
    • Audiences for targeting content to users who meet specific criteria.
    • Content destinations for publishing news articles.
    • Content categories to organize news articles.
    Microsites/Rich content, News articles and Portal content