A Special Alert displays at the top of pages you specify (see example below), surrounded by a red border. A special alert can be created by a Site manager or by someone who has been given the Special alerter role. You can only have one special alert active on a site.
Note: Special Alerts should ONLY be used to convey urgently important information.
Add a Special Alert
- From the Administration bar click My Workbench.
- Click the Create/Manage Content tab.
- Select Special Alert.
- Enter the alert message in the Body. This should be short and concise.
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Visibility denotes where this Special Alert will appear. This field is set to home by default.
- Leaving this field set to <front> will result in the Special Alert appearing on the home page only.
- Leaving this field blank will result in the Special Alert appearing on all pages of your site.
- If you would like to limit the pages on which this Special Alert appears, enter paths above, one path per line. You may use a backslash and asterisk (/*) to include all items under a path. To exclude a path, start the line with "not". For example:
news
news/*
not news/special
- Under Publishing options select the checkbox beside Published.
- Click Save.
Your Special Alert will now appear on the home page ABOVE the banner and/or at the top of any other specified pages.
Remove a Special Alert
To remove a Special Alert you need to unpublish it.
- From the Administration bar select My Workbench.
- Select the Create/Manage Content tab.
- Select Special Alert.
- Under Publishing options deselect the checkbox beside Published.
- Click Save.