Create Site Notifications

Activate or Deactivate a Site Notification

Delete a Site Notification

Edit Site Notifications

nicolew created · Feb 23, 2016 at 10:14 PM · micheled edited · Mar 31, 2017 at 06:49 PM

You may need to create a site-wide message in order to alert your community of something specific such as site maintenance or a contest. These messages can be seen by a user upon logging in, and can even be customized to start and end at different dates and times.

Note: Certain features about this notification system can change slightly depending on the theme you are using. With the default theme, an active site notification is displayed in the AnswerHub User Interface (UI).

To create site notifications, follow these steps:

From the Site tab of the Administrator Dashboard, select Site Notifications from the Summary menu of the Navigation sidebar.

Result: The Site Notifications pane is displayed.
Above the table, click the Add New link.

Result: The Create Site Notification pane is displayed.
Enter the required information in the following fields:
1. Headline- The headline you want to be displayed at the top of the site notification.
2. Body- The content that you want to be displayed in the main body of the site notification.
Click the Choose File () button to select an image that will be displayed with the site notification.
Enter the required information in the following fields:
1. Link- Enter a link destination to be added to the headline of the site notification.
  
  Note:To add an external link, be sure to add the complete address of the destination site. If http:// is left out of the external link, the site will attempt to navigate to an internal site with that name.
  
  For Example: If you add a link to dzone.com, instead of http://www.dzone.com, then when a user clicks the headline they will be navigated to www.[youranswerhubsite].com/dzone.com.
2. Start Date :The date that you want the site notification to begin being displayed.
3. End Date:The date that you want the site notification to stop being displayed.
Select the Active checkbox to make the site notification active.

Note: Even if the current date is within the set date range, if this box is not checked, the site notification will not be displayed.
Click the Save () button.

Result: A green bar that reads Successfully added new site notification. is displayed at the top of the Create Site Notifications pane.

Note: Certain features about this notification system can change slightly depending on the theme you are using. With the default theme, an active site notification is displayed in the AnswerHub User Interface (UI).