Acknowledgement for pages and news
This page explains how to request confirmation of consultation for intranet pages and news.
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This page explains how to request confirmation of consultation for intranet pages and news.
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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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Finally, publish or republish the page to make it available to your colleagues.
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.
You can modify the selection at any time by adding or removing users or groups. The will update accordingly.
To learn more about this option, please refer to the section.
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 "" section for more details on the features and functionalities of the report.
