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Place banners at the top of your sites to communicate important information to your users. You can show announcements
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on all sites or only on a specific site, category or space.
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What are announcement banners?
Announcement banners are banners displayed at the top of your customer facing pages to display important messages and information. When used correctly, this is an efficient way to communicate important impacts to customers and users.
Who can add announcement banners?
Any user with site admin permissions can add an announcement banner.
How to add an announcement
An announcement has the following settings.
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Add an announcement banner
Go to the Refined Administration.
Go to the Announcements tab.
Click + Create Announcement.
Setting | Description |
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Message | The content of your announcement. |
Location |
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The announcement banner shows up on the location you choose, as well as all its child pages. From the dropdown menu you can select global (all sites) or login page. Alternatively, type to select a specific site, category, or space. | |
Published | Check this to |
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display the announcement |
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: consider it a draft when it is not checked. |
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Closable | By default, active banners always stay visible while users browse the site. If you check thisbox, users can close the banner. |
Type | You can choose one of four banner types: warning, alert, info |
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, and announcement. The icon and |
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| Ui step |
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Go to Refined Administration: Config menu > Refined Administration |
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Click on the "Announcement" menu item
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banner colour change depending on the banner type. |
Copy, edit
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or delete a banner
An announcement banner can be copied meaning that a new announcement will be created with the same information. This comes in handy when you have updates to an existing announcement, but users may have closed it down. Make a copy and delete the old one to push the message again
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Edit an announcement for any of the settings.
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