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Widget notifications - Rotating announcements
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Description
### Describe the bug
[The widget description](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/stay-up-to-date-with-widgets-7ba79aaa-dac6-4687-b460-ad16a06be6e4) provides information about “Rotating announcements”. Some widgets like Weather and Finance support them.
There is no information about “Rotating announcements” in [widget developing documentation](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/develop/widgets/implement-widget-provider-cs).
How to implement “Rotating announcements” support for a widget?
### Steps to reproduce the bug
As description.
### Expected behavior
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### Screenshots
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### NuGet package version
None
### Packaging type
Packaged (MSIX)
### Windows version
Windows 11 version 22H2 (22621, 2022 Update), Windows 11 version 21H2 (22000)
### IDE
Visual Studio 2022
### Additional context
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the linked widget description and the widget provider documentation for the missing “Rotating announcements” feature. Compare the documented Weather and Finance behavior with the current widget guidance, then update the widget developing documentation so providers can understand how to implement it and verify the explanation covers the requested scenario.
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Assessment
- Domain
- desktop, documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100