Announcements: Send a Message Right Away from the Dashboard

With announcements you send a message to a channel of your choice right away from the dashboard, for example a notice about maintenance. Each announcement is a single send: Kage does not store the text and remembers nothing for later.

For lasting content that you want to edit later, there is the Community Board. You send recurring messages with Auto messages.

Requirements

• Access: You sign in to the dashboard with Discord and need access to the server.
• Kage's permissions in the target channel: View Channel and Send Messages, and for an embed also Embed Links.
• No plan needed: Announcements are not a module you switch on or off, and have no plan of their own.

Sending an announcement

1. In the dashboard, open Announcements.
2. Choose the Target, a text channel.
3. Optional: enter a Title.
4. Write the Text (at least 1 character).
5. Choose whether the message appears as an embed with a border. Then you can pick the border colour. Otherwise Kage sends plain text.
6. Check the Preview and click Send now.

Kage confirms with "Sent to #channel".

Placeholders

In the title and the text, Kage replaces:

Other placeholders stay exactly as you wrote them. There are no placeholders for individual members, because an announcement is addressed to everyone.

Appearance

Limits

If you exceed Discord's limit, Discord rejects the message and the dashboard reports that sending failed.

Recently sent

Under Recently sent, the page shows the latest announcements from the server's log: the channel and the beginning of the title or text. The full text is not stored.

Settings at a glance

Announcements have no stored settings. Every entry applies only to that one send.

Checking the result

1. Choose a test channel: Pick a channel where a test message does not disturb.
2. Send: Write "Welcome to {guild}, we are {membercount}." and send.
3. Check: The channel shows the text with the server name and member count.

Troubleshooting

"Invalid channel"

The channel no longer exists or is not a text channel. Choose another one.

Kage may not write in the channel

Give Kage's role View Channel and Send Messages in the channel. The dashboard reports missing permissions.

"Sending failed"

Usually the text is too long for the chosen format. Shorten it, or send it as an embed.

The colour looks wrong

Enter it as a six-digit hex value, for example #5865F2. Anything else is replaced by Kage with the default blue.

Further reading

Lasting, editable posts: Community Board. Designed messages with templates: Embeds.