The Announcements Dashboard Widget is a Registry Dashboard plugin that manages and renders Announcements.

Once enabled, Announcements can be viewed either via the main menu Announcements link, or via the Dashboard widget. The widget only renders active announcements (as determined by the valid from and valid through dates), while the main menu link can be used to view archived announcements as well.

Announcement Channels

Announcements are published via Announcement Channels, which in turn have Author and Reader groups attached. Members of the Author group can publish Announcements in the Channel, Members of the Reader group can read Announcements in the Channel.

• To make an Announcement Channel visible to all members of a CO, simply use the CO:members:active group.
• An Announcement Channel can be made public by leaving the Reader group blank. This is only useful in conjunction with a widget attached to a Registry Dashboard configured for Unauthenticated visibility.
• To make a subscription Channel, attach an open group as the Reader group.

Channels can be configured to generate Notifications when an Announcement is posted or updated. (This does not apply to public Channels.)

Each Channel can be configured to allow HTML to be published. This should only be enabled when the members of the Authors group can be well trusted, as otherwise it is possible for posters to add potentially malicious HTML. When in doubt, leave HTML publishing disabled.

Configuration

1. This is a non-core plugin, see Installing and Enabling Registry Plugins for more information.