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 <[email protected]> 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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