Hi Hamster,
one method I've used in the past is to create a page called Main.Announce
Then I would include the content of this page in header.vm and style it in
bold red.
This way when there is content in Main.Announce it's displayed at the top
of the page for everyone to see. When there is none, nothing displays.
Guillaume
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Hamster <teunham(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
I am interested in how others are making annoucements
on their XWiki.
For example: let's say that there's maintenance scheduled to the network,
and that certain drives are unavailable for some period of time. Or that
email is unavailable for a certain period of time?
Right now, we are using email as our main method of communication, but I
would like to eliminate email saying "We are out of water from 10:00 till
13:00"...last friday!!! Everybody is busy reading email about things which
happened at some time in the past :-)
How can that announcement be made "visible" on the mainpage of our XWiki?
We could just edit the XWiki mainpage, show the annoucement and remove it
afterwards (but that's not so sophisticated)
What other options are available?
I was thinking about the Blog Application, where the annoucement will be
made. Annoucements could be a seperate category in the Blog. The XWiki
mainpage should only show Blog entries of a specific category. Best thing
would be if we could "publish" the Blog entry at a certain time (this is
possible), and "unpublish" the Blog entry after the maintenance has been
completed (not yet possible in an automated fashion, but you can "hide" a
blog entry by hand).
So, what methods do you guys using?
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