What can you do on this screen?
On the Announcements screen, you can create and manage the announcements that show on the login screen and on the Announcements screen that you can access by selecting the Announcement icon that displays between your user name and the help icon in the header bar. Once you've reviewed the announcements, you can close the pop-up. There are three types of Announcement icons:
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- this icon displays when there are active announcements to view.
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- this icon displays when there are unread/new announcements to view.
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- this icon displays whenever there is a problem with the license for LEAD.
Figure 349: Admin > Announcements
For each announcement, you can:
•Add a new announcement to the existing list by clicking on 
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•Select an announcement and then:
oView 
the announcement information.
oEdit 
the announcement information.
oSelect Show History 
to review the changes made to the announcement, including the user name and date/time of saved changes, and revert to an earlier saved revision.
oDelete 
the announcement. Once you've selected OK to the confirmation message, an Undo button displays on the bottom left of the screen that allows you to revert the deletion.
Finding Announcements
If you can't find the announcement you're looking for, enter a search term in the Find: field and select Search. The table will list all announcements that contain your search term on the screen.
You can click on the column headers of each table to sort the announcements by that column. Clicking on a column header again will reverse the sort. Clicking on the column header a third time will remove the sort. Small arrows in the column header let you know which way the data is currently sorted.
On the Announcements screen: •Select •Select View •Select Edit Any of these options opens the Announcement Detail screen, ready for you to enter, review, or update the fields below.  Figure 350: Admin > Announcement Detail Screen
•To create a new announcement, select Save once you've entered all the information. Likewise, to keep the edits you've made to an existing announcement, select Save. This will return you to the list of announcements. •If you do not want to keep the edits or create a new announcement, just select Cancel to close the pop-up. •If you're reviewing a announcement, you can select Edit to make changes or you can close the pop-up window by selecting the X in the top right of the pop-up. Created By The Created By field shows the user name that created the announcement. When you create a new announcement, your user name is automatically selected. Creation Date The Creation Date is the date and time the announcement was created, this is automatically set from the server time when you selected New, not when you Save the announcement. Expiration Date The Expiration Date is the date the announcement will no longer display on the login screen. Subject The Subject is the title of the announcement. Content The Content field captures the actual announcement text and can be formatted as needed. |
No The number (No) column provides a sequential count of the entries, which is not attached to the entries themselves. Subject The Subject is the title of the announcement. Creation Date The Creation Date is the date and time the announcement was created, this is automatically set from the server time when you selected New, not when you Save the announcement. Expiration Date The Expiration Date is the date the announcement will no longer display on the login screen. |