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title: Shoutouts
slug: shoutouts
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createdAt: 2022-10-07T15:18:54.000Z
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Shoutouts enable employees to recognize each other across your organization.

For example, if someone from your marketing department wants to compliment their graphic designer teammate publicly, they can write up a quick paragraph and have it posted to the graphic designer’s employee profile. The “shoutout” appears on their profile page and is visible to anyone who views the employee profile.

You can even track which of your employees have received shoutouts from others by using the Data Sheet page. Encouraging your teams to use shoutouts helps foster a positive culture.

## Give an employee a shoutout

Any employee can give another employee a shoutout and shoutouts are visible to all employees through respective employee profile pages.

1. From the left sidebar, select **Org Chart**.
2. In the **Org Chart**, select the employee whose profile you want to view.
3. In the employee's profile summary, select **View profile**.
4. Choose **Shoutout** from the Complete tasks menu.

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1. Use the **Shoutout** dialog to enter the text you’d like to share with the employee.
2. Select **Submit**. The shoutout displays on the Shoutout tab of the employee’s profile.

## View Shoutouts

You can view employee shoutouts (including your own) by navigating to the respective employee’s profile page.

1. From the left sidebar, select **Org Chart**.
2. In the **Org Chart**, select the employee whose profile you want to view.
3. In the employee's profile summary, select **View profile**.
4. Select the **Shoutout** tab to view any shoutouts. 

## Installing the Shoutout bundle

If your ChartHop package did not come with the Shoutout bundle installed, you can install it.

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You can customize the shoutout form that employees use to give shoutouts. You can modify the text on the dialog, as well as add ways to add additional information aside from just filling in text. If your organization uses Slack and has integrated ChartHop with Slack, you can also configure shoutouts to automatically be sent to a specific Slack channel.

1. From the left sidebar, select **Apps & Bundles**.
2. From the sub-menu, select **Bundles**.
3. Select the **Availible Bundles** tab to see the list of bundles.
4. Within the Available bundles tab, select a bundle to see an overview of your selected bundle and what it contains.
5. Within the Bundle dialog box, select **Install** to install the bundle.

### Customize the Shoutout bundle

You can add additional fields to the Shoutout form that is used and customize the text used on the dialog box that the employees see.&#x20;

1. From the left sidebar, select **People Ops Tools**.
2. From the sub-menu, select **Forms**.
3. Select the Shoutout form from the list.&#x20;
4. In the Form builder, make the changes you want.
5. After making your changes, select **Preview** to view how the form will appear.
6. Select **Save and Exit**.

### Shoutout fields

| Field    | Data Sensitivity |
| -------- | ---------------- |
| Shoutout | Org public       |

### Shoutout form

| Form      | Data sensitivity                      |
| --------- | ------------------------------------- |
| Shoutouts | Org public (except respective person) |

### Shoutout profile tab

| Form      | Data sensitivity |
| --------- | ---------------- |
| Shoutouts | Org public       |

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