OOONA includes three ways of conveying messages to users.
Welcome page message
Megaphone
What’s new
The Megaphone (fig 1) and the Welcome page message (fig 2), are messages displayed at all times on the home page of OOONA.
What’s new messages, are one-time, popup messages that are displayed on login.
All messages can be targeted to specific user groups, see https://ooona.atlassian.net/l/cp/1Li19A1h
Only managers can create messages
Targeting messages to user groups
As mentioned, all message types have the option of selecting targeted user groups the message will be displayed to, using the “Targeted at” field (fig 1).
The user groups are users grouped by resource type (fig 2).
When not using Resource types - you must select “All” in the Targeted at” list (fig 3).
Adding a Welcome page message
To add a new welcome page message:
Navigate to Manager > Messages > Welcome page message
Click “Add new message”
Select the target user groups (resource types) from the “Targeted at” list
Type your message in the Message box
Click “Save”
Editing an existing Welcome page message
To edit an existing welcome page message:
Navigate to Manager > Messages > Welcome page message
To edit the message, Click the “Edit” icon (fig 1) and make the required changes as described before.
To deactivate the message, click the “Active” icon (fig 2). (Green = active)
Deactivating a Welcome Message
To deactivate a message, click on the “Active” icon (fig 2 above)
Adding a Megaphone message
To add a new Megaphone message:
Navigate to Manager > Messages > Welcome page megaphone
Click “Add new message” (fig 1)
The first row of messages becomes editable:
Select the target user groups (resource types) the message will be displayed to (fig 2)
Type in the required message (fig 3)
Select an Image from the image list (fig 4)
Set the Active icon (V= active) (fig 5)
Click on the green V to save (fig 6)
To edit or deactivate an existing Megaphone message, click on the Pencil icon beside the entry you wish to edit and follow the same steps as described above.
You can deactivate a message from the message list directly by clicking on the relevant icon in the “Active” column (No need to enter edit mode).
Displaying multiple Megaphone messages
By setting multiple Megaphone messages to “Active”, the system will display them one after the other in sequence.
the user can manually scroll between the messages using the navigation arrows beneath the Megaphone
Adding a What’s new message
To add a new What’s new message:
Navigate to Manager > Messages > What’s new message
Click “Add new message” (fig 1)
Select the target user groups (resource types) from the “Targeted at” list (fig 2)
Type your message in the Message box (fig 2)
Click “Save” (fig 4)
To edit or deactivate an existing What’s new message, click on the Pencil icon beside the entry you wish to edit and follow the same steps as described above.
Displaying multiple What’s new messages
As mentioned, What’s new messages, are one-time, popup messages that are displayed on login.
By setting multiple What’s new messages to “Active”, the system will display them to the targeted users.
The user MUST view all messages. Any unviewed message will be displayed again the next time the user logs in.
Deleting messages
To delete a message:
Navigate to the relevant message list
Click on the red X of the required message to be deleted (fig 1)
Click “yes” in the message that appears (fig 2)
