Announcements are messages to be shown on the Home page. Announcements are created in a rich text editing field and may contain formatted text, images and HTML. Announcements may be displayed for a chosen Audience of:

• individual users, or multiple selected users,
• all members of a user group (or multiple user groups),
• all users logged into Spydus at specified Locations
• all users

Creating an Announcement

To create a new Announcement:

1. Navigate to Maintenance > General > Announcements.
2. Click New.
   
3. Add a Title. This will be displayed in the header row of the Announcement (which may be clicked to collapse or expand the content).
4. Compose the Announcement in text editor.
   • Click the </>button to compose HTML.
5. The Start date is the date that the Announcement will begin to be displayed in the Home module.
   • The Start date will default to today's date. Be sure to set this appropriately if the Announcement is not yet intended to be displayed.
6. The Expiry date is the date that the Announcement will cease to be displayed in the Home module.
   • The Expiry date will be null by default. With no Expiry date, an Announcement will continue to display in the Home module until it is deleted.
7. Specify the Audience for the Announcement:
   • Selecting All will display the Announcement for all users (all user groups, all locations).
   • Selecting Branches will produce a picklist of Branch locations, from which either single or multiple locations may be selected. Whether or not the Announcement is displayed depends on the Branch location selected at login.
   • Selecting Users will produce two picklists; Users and User Groups. Both individual Users and User Groups may be selected as the Audience for a single Announcement.
8. Click Save or Save & Close when the Announcement is complete.

Edit an existing Announcement

To make changes to an existing announcement, click the row in the Announcements list, then click Edit. Alternatively, double-click the row. Make any desired changes in the editor, then Save or Save & Close.

Delete Announcements

To delete Announcements, select the rows in the list by clicking them, then click Delete.

• The list supports using Ctrl+Click, or Shift+Click to select multiple rows.
• All rows may be selected by checking the box in the header row.
• Deleted and expired Announcements will not appear in the Announcements list
  • Deleted and expired notices still have records in the database, and may be queried by Civica staff, or if the library has SQL access