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.
Only managers can create messages
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 users 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 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).
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 users 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.
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)