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    News in the Staff Portal

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    Everything your manager writes to the team arrives as news in the portal. The old message system has been retired, so you only have one place to keep an eye on.

    Where to find them

    Tap Nyheter (news) at the bottom of the portal. The number on the tab shows how many posts you have not read.

    On Hem (home), the Aktivitet card combines news and personal events. Tap a news row to open Nyheter. Tap the card heading or an activity row to open activity history. The unread count includes both news and personal events.

    Reading a post

    Each post is shown as a card with a headline, who wrote it and when. The text is collapsed to two lines — tap the card to expand it. At the same time the post is marked as read and the counter goes down.

    Two labels can appear on the card:

    • Nytt (new) – you have not opened the post yet
    • Pinnad (pinned) – your manager has pinned the post so it stays at the top

    If your manager edited the text after publishing, it says "(redigerad …)" — edited — underneath.

    Like and comment

    Below the text there may be two buttons, depending on what your manager chose for that particular post:

    • The heart – like the post. The number shows how many have liked it
    • The speech bubble – open the comments

    Comments are written in the field at the bottom and sent with the button to the right. You can write up to 2,000 characters, and you can delete your own comments. If your manager does not allow comments on the post, the field is not shown at all.

    Comments are visible to everyone who sees the post — this is not a private message to your manager.

    How you find out something new has arrived

    Your manager chooses per post how it should be sent:

    • Push notification in the Vendion app
    • Email
    • SMS

    Tapping the notification opens the right post directly and marks it read.

    Push only works in the app. For news posts, email requires both the manager selecting email and you enabling email notifications. Email does not automatically replace push for every news post. You manage your own choices under Profil ▸ Notiser (profile, notifications).

    Older messages

    Before the news feed existed, internal messages were sent in a separate system. It has been retired, but your old messages are not gone.

    If you still have unread ones a card appears on Hem: "Du har N olästa meddelanden från tidigare" (you have N unread messages from before). Tap it and then Öppna tidigare meddelanden (open earlier messages).

    There you find a simple list of the most recent messages, with headline, text and date. If a message required a read receipt, the Bekräfta läsning (confirm read) button is still on it. If you have no unread ones left the card is not shown, and then there is nothing you need to do.

    If you cannot see a post you were expecting

    Three common reasons:

    • The post was not for you. Your manager can target a post at the whole team, at a staff group or at individual people. If you are not a recipient it is not shown.
    • You are on the wrong restaurant. News belongs to one restaurant at a time. If you work at several, switch in the top left of the portal.
    • The post is brand new. The feed refreshes itself, but if your phone lost its connection the list may be stale — reload the page.

    A comment the author has deleted disappears from the thread.

    What does not exist

    The news feed is deliberately simple. The following does not exist:

    • No Reply button to your manager. If you want to answer in writing, comment on the post — otherwise raise it in person
    • No folders for unread, read and archive
    • No search box and no filters
    • No automatic clean-up — posts and old messages do not disappear by themselves
    • No read receipt on news. The old message system had that; the news feed only shows whether the post is read or not

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