If available, this option allows a user to create, edit and delete messages on the Message Board widget.
Messages can be added against individual sites or across the whole organisation so users can be informed of any important news or procedures that relates to them. Messages can only be added by those users that have the correct permissions assigned to their group via Menu>Amulet Configuration>Groups.
The screen is made up of the 2 parts: the treeview and any messages that belong to the organisation or site that is selected in the treeview.
Create a New Message
Select either an individual site from the treeview, or click on the organisation itself. Clicking on either will display any existing messages that have already been created.
- Click the New Message button.
- Add a date when the message should be added and when it should expire using the pop up calendar. It will be removed from the message board widget at the date of expiry, but not the Message Board Administration page.
- Select a level of importance from the drop down menu. The level of importance reflects the order in the messages will appear in the widget, 1 being the most important.
- Fill out the Author and Heading details and add the message text, which can be up to 2500 characters in length.
- The message text can include HTML characters and formatting, but for this to be accepted, a change needs to be made within the organisations Web Configuration.
- Within Web Configuration, the configuration Allow HTML in Messages needs to be set to True.
- The message text can include HTML characters and formatting, but for this to be accepted, a change needs to be made within the organisations Web Configuration.
- Press the Save button when complete to add it to the Site Messages list.
Editing and Deleting a Message
Click on the Edit icon against a message in the grid. This will bring up a window similar to the above to allow the message to be edited.
To delete a message from the board, particularly those that have expired, click on the delete icon for that message. This will automatically remove the message from the board.
Messages in the Site Messages list can be sorted by clicking the individual column headers.
Assigning Messages to Individual Widgets
Messages specific to already configured individual widgets, rather than sites in the treeview, can also be administered from this page by following the same procedures as above, but with the individual widget selected, instead of the site(s).
