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User Guide - 1.3
- Karina Zoin
This guide refers to functionality in the 1.3 version of the Announcer plugin for Confluence, JIRA and Stash.
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To add a new announcement, click the Cog menu 
and choose Add-ons. In the left sidebar, click Announcer.
Administration Overview page
On the administration overview page, you can view the active notifications for users logging in.
From this page, you can:
- Click Preview (
) to preview an existing notification. - Click Edit (Â
) to edit an existing notification. - Click Delete (
) to delete an existing notification. - Click Add another announcement to add a new announcement.
Creating or editing an announcement
When you create or edit an announcement, the Notification editor window will appear.
Supply the following details:
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Title | This is both the title of the notification in the ui and presented to the end user in the title bar of the browser window |
| Description | This is in an internal description of the announcement and is not displayed to the end user. |
| Notification Type | Banner - this will make the notification show up as a banner on every page until the end user dismisses it. Full Page - this will make the notification be a "full page" acknowledgment (see list of of URLS below that are not affected). |
| Contents | This is the body of the announcement. Please use html tags to format the contents. |
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Then, click Preview to preview your notification, Save to save the notification and put it into effect, or Cancel to discard your changes.
URLs that are not affected
The Announcer plugin will intercept all page requests with the exception of the below paths:
| URL | Product | Description |
|---|---|---|
| /rest/* | All | REST URLs are not blocked |
| /plugins/servlet/upm | All | The Universal Plugin Manager (UPM) is not blocked |
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