Add a banner / announcement to your site

If you need to give your users, suppliers, colleagues, clients a message you can use the Panacea Software announcement bar. You can set up an announcement to run for a specific type of user and for a specific time period.

To set up an announcement/ banner on your site:

• Go to the left hand menu > Settings > Announcements.
• Click on the New button (bottom of the page underneath other announcements).
• A new announcement will appear.
• Click Edit to change the message and set-up, and then enter your message. Here, you can also:
  • Select the colour of the banner from the drop down list next to the paintbrush symbol.
  • Select who you would like the banner to visible to by selecting a user type from the drop-down list entitled 'All user'.
  • Set when you would like the announcement to run by selecting a date next to 'Start'.
  • Set when you would like the announcement to run until by selcting a date next to 'Run Until'
• Click Save.
• You must remember to click the Go Live button to make the announcement live.

NB: The default text when creating an announcement/banner is there for reference regarding adding different styles to your announcement - please remove the text and type out your own.

• Styles include: **text** to make text bold; _text_ to italicize text; 'text' to add a box around the text.

Once you make it live you can withdraw it at any time, make amendments and republish if needed.