Working with announcements

How to create and edit an announcement.

New/Edit

To create or change an announcement, click New, or select an existing announcement and click Edit.

To change the position of an announcement in the list of announcements, select the announcement and click Move Up to move the announcement up in the list, or click Move Down, to move the announcement down in the list.

To change the position of a column in the announcement table, place your cursor in the column header, left-click and hold, and then drag the column to the right or left of its current position.

To delete all of the announcements from a page in the table (tables can have multiple pages), select the check box in upper left corner of the table. A check is added to the check box for every announcement on the page. Click Delete Checked to delete the selected announcements.

To delete specific announcements, select the check box for the row that contains the announcement, and click Delete Checked.

Click Refresh to update the list and order of announcements from the Portal.

Parameter Description
Message

Up to 256 characters.

You can force line breaks in your announcement by adding \n to the end of each line. For example: 

This is line 1. \n
This is line 2. \n
Line 3. \n

No other form of formatting is supported.
Starts
This value is the time at which the portal begins to display the announcement to users.
  • Date - Click this field to open a calendar.
  • Time - Click this field to open a time selector.
Expires
This value is the time at which the Portal stops displaying the announcement to users.
  • Date - Click this field to open a calendar.
  • Time - Click this field to open a time selector.
Admin Only Select the Admin Only check box if you want the announcement to be displayed to Admin Groups (admin, reveal admin, view admin) only.