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### 3.3.2. How do I use announcements?

The announcement-module works with a separate announcements-forum whose messages are shown above the message-list as specified. Therefore follow this description to enable announcements for your Phorum:

- Create a separate announcement-forum. The name doesn't matter, just try to remember it.
- Go to the Admin -> Modules panel and click on the "Settings" link of the announcements-module.
- Select the pages where announcements should be visible on (index, list and/or read)
- Select if only unread announcements should be shown to the user
  Note: Only announcements the user has clicked on to read the message are counted as read.
- Enter the number of announcements that should be shown.
  Attention: This number of announcements is all that is retrieved before doing the additional checks like for date and being new to the user.
- Enter the maximum number of days an announcement should be visible for.
  Note: The post-date is being used to calculate that. Edits are not taken into account.
- Select the announcement forum where the messages should be taken from
- Optional: If you have vroots then these will be listed and you have the chance to select different announcement forums for them.

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