System Announcements (Manage)
Overview
In CXO Designer, from under Shared Objects>System Announcements you can view/edit/delete the list of items. From the list, you can see the Title, whether the item is published, when the last notification was, active time after login and the date when it was last updated.
Additionally, you may click on the Edit button which will open the Edit News Item from where you can change Title, description, whether the announcement should be published on home report and news control and/or if you want to send out a system notification.
Filtering
You can also filter the list by the same mentioned criteria: typing the Title or filter by published, unpublished to all News Items.
Options
You can copy or delete a system announcement by clicking on the icon in front of the Title column. Copy will Copy the News Item by adding (Copy) at the end of the Name. Delete will delete the News Item.
Create New System Announcement
By clicking on + New System Announcement button the Add System Announcement window is opened. Here, the Title and Text are mandatory and Save button is enabled after these fields are filled in.
Select the options to Publish on Home Report and News Control and/or Send Notification on Save.
The notifications are shown under the Notification icon on the Main menu.
Maintenance Messages
Maintenance messages are created by admins and are made available for 24 hours from its announcement. Click on the option Show after login for a period of 24 hours.
The pop up message appears once upon login.
If a new message gets added the previous announcement is switched of and the new message is shown. However, if an ongoing announcement is edited, the edited message gets displayed for the remaining time.
Admin can turn off an announcement by clicking Turn Off under details of the announcement.
An announcement item created can be reused and made available again by checking the Show after login for a period of 24 hours option.