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.