Placing a Notification

You can publish up to three notifications on the main CStoreOffice® page at once. In this case, they will be placed one by one.

It is recommended to use short text messages in the notifications in order not to overlap the CStoreOffice® interface for the customers. To provide more details, if needed, you may insert hyperlinks or small images in the Text field of your notification.

To place the notification on the CStoreOffice® main page for all customers:

1. Log into CStoreOffice® under the user with the system role.
2. Go to the bottom of the main page and click Show Component Info.
3. In the component data that opens, click Home Page.

   
   Result: The component for the CStoreOffice® main page opens.

4. In the Components page > Components tab, expand the Notifications section.

   

5. In the Notifications section:
1. Click the plus button.
2. In the Type list, select the notification type. Currently, the following notifications types are supported:

• Info: The most common notification type.
• Deploy
• Deprecate

3. In the Expiry Date field, select the date until your notification should be placed. Next day after this date, the notification will be automatically hidden.
4. In the Account Groups list, select the group of accounts for which the notification should not be displayed, if any. In most cases, this field should be left blank.
5. In the Title field, type the notification title.
6. In the Text field, type the notification text. You may add hyperlinks or small images, if needed, to provide more details to the customers.

   

   For more information about text templates, see Adding Text to a Notification.

   How to add small image to the notification

   To add a small image to the notification:

   1. Open the image you want to add on your local computer.
   2. Copy opened image into the buffer.
   3. Place the cursor in the Text field of your notification.
   4. Right-click and click Paste or press Ctrl+V on your keyboard.
      Result: The image is added to your notification.

      

   Notifications must not overlap the CStoreOffice® interface. That is why it is strongly recommended to add short text messages and small images, if needed, into your notifications.

6. At the top right of the Components tab, click Save.

Be careful by clicking the Save button. Do not occasionally click the Delete button as this action will remove the component at all! To prevent occasional deletion of the Delete button in the future, a request to hide this button has been already submitted (179546 - Hide deleting component functionality).

7. Go to the main page and refresh it, to make sure your notification has been placed.