# Acknowledgement for pages and news
With the **Acknowledgement Pages** component, you can request confirmation of consultation for **intranet pages** and **news**, ensuring that selected users acknowledge important updates. In this section, you will learn how to insert the Acknowledgement Pages component within a page or news article and monitor consultation through the reporting system.
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## Add the Acknowledgement web part to a SharePoint page or news post
To activate the Acknowledgement function for a page or news article, you need to **insert the Acknowledgement Pages component into the page or news article**. To do so, follow these steps:
* If your page is not already in edit mode, click on **Edit** at the top right of the page.
* Hover your mouse above or below an existing web part and you'll see a line with a circled +, like this: .
* Click on it and, in the web part search box, enter **AcknowledgementPages** to find and select the Acknowledgement Pages web part.
* Click the **Edit properties** button on the left of the web part to open the property pane, which consists of one section: Display Settings. See below for more information on this section.
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## Configuration
The configuration pane of the Acknowledgement Pages web part allows you to customize texts and to activate or deactivate buttons and sections.
* The first settings allows you to **customize the introductory text**. If you leave this field blank, the default text will be used, which is “By clicking on the following action button I confirm that I have read this content”.
* The second setting allows you to **customize the text of the Acknowledgement button**. If you leave this field blank, the default text will be used, which is “Acknowledgement”.
* The third setting allows you to **hide** the **Acknowledgement** button.
* Thanks to the fourth setting, you can choose whether **users** who are **not selected** will see a **message** indicating that **no acknowledgement is required**. By default, this message is hidden. To display it, change the **default option** from **Yes** to **No**.
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## Select users for acknowledgement request
Now, **select the users or groups** who need to confirm they have seen the content. Take the following steps:
* Select **individual users or groups** (**Microsoft 365 groups**, **mail-enabled security groups** and **distribution groups, even with guest users**, are supported).
* **Save your selection**. A confirmation message will appear, indicating that the chosen users have been assigned.
* You can **modify the selection** at any time by adding or removing users or groups. The [Power BI report](#track-acknowledgements) will update accordingly.
Finally, publish or republish the page to make it available to your colleagues.
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## User Experience
When accessing the page or news article, **selected users will see a button** prompting them to **confirm** they have read the content.
Once they click the button, the page will update to display the **acknowledgement date**, confirming that the consultation has been registered.
**Users who were not selected** will experience different behaviors depending on the configuration of the **Hide the message for unsolicited read confirmation?** option.
* If this option is **enabled** (default setting), unselected users **will not see any message** related to the acknowledgement request.
* If the option is **disabled**, these users will see a **message explicitly stating that their acknowledgement is not required**.
To learn more about this option, please refer to the ["Configuration"](https://docs.intranet.ai/acknowledgement/features/acknowledgement-for-pages-and-news#configuration) section.
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## Track acknowledgements
**All confirmation data**—whether for **documents**, **pages**, or **news**—are consolidated in a **single Power BI report**, allowing real-time monitoring and a complete overview of consultation activities. Please, refer to the **"**[**Acknowledgement for documents**](https://docs.intranet.ai/acknowledgement/features/acknowledgement-for-documents#track-acknowledgements)**"** section for more details on the features and functionalities of the report.
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* Click on it and, in the web part search box, enter **AcknowledgementPages** to find and select the Acknowledgement Pages web part.