Alerts

The Alerts tab in the Dashboard allows you to put a brief, important message at the top of the pages. They can be syndicated throughout your website according to the options that you choose.

Please be judicious about using alerts. Keep it brief and link it to a longer page if there's a lot to say. You can stack them to show multiple alerts at one time on the same page, but that can start to look very busy, very quickly.

Create A New Alert

1. Go to Alerts on the dashboard
2. Click Add new Alert
3. Title the alert something descriptive. Only those in the backend of the site will see this.
4. Save draft or publish once the required fields are completed. Remember, you can schedule publish dates by selecting a date in the future.

Please note that we recommend not reusing alerts, but deleting old ones and making new ones. When a user X's out of an alert, caching will ensure it doesn't keep reappearing every time they go to the site.

Alert Fields

The alert text field is required. It's what will show in the red alert space at the top of the page.

Which pages is also a required field. You can select every page or "just these pages" and then select which pages, news items or event detail pages you'd like the alert appear.

You can add an option link to an internal page or external site.

You can put an optional expiration date. At that date the alert will automatically change from published to draft.

You can publish the alert now, or a date in the future. If yo opt for a future date, the status will read "scheduled" rather than "published".

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