Next Experience banner announcements

Banner announcements enable you to communicate planned maintenance, unplanned outages, or important events like ESPP stock plans or benefits enrollment to those affected or to everyone. You can target specific experiences or all experiences.

Note:

Beginning with the San Diego release, configure banner announcements instead of updating the glide.product.description system property.

You can configure the following aspects of banner announcements:

• Use colors and icons to communicate the type of announcement and the importance of the banner announcement.
• Provide a link for information or to complete a task.
• Schedule banner announcements for a specific time.
  Note:

  If a user dismisses a banner announcement during a session and the announcement is still active, it will re-appear once the user logs out and back in to a new session.

Configure Next Experience banner announcements

Configure banner announcements to communicate important information to your users while they are in an experience.

Before you begin

Role required: announcement_admin or admin

Procedure

1. Navigate to All > Now Experience Framework > Configuration Settings > UX Banner Announcements.
2. Select New.
3. On the Banner Announcements form, fill in the fields.

   Table 1. Banner Announcements form

   Field	Description
   Heading	Unique name for your banner announcement mapping that displays as the title. Note: The heading character limit is 100 characters.
   Summary	Optional additional banner content that displays below the Heading. Note: The summary character limit is 200 characters.
   Start	Date and time the banner announcement begins displaying in the UI.
   End	Date and time the banner announcement stops displaying in the UI.
   Color	Color to show the importance or urgency of the banner announcement.
   Add a link	Option to provide a link in the banner announcement. Note: The link label character limit is 50 characters. Enabling this option displays the following link configuration fields: Select behavior: Behavior of the link when selected, either opening in the same window or a new window. Label: Text displayed with the link. URL: URL of the link.
   Non-dismissible	Option to make the banner non-dismissible by users. Non-dismissible banners cannot be closed.
   Non-stackable	Option to make the banner non-stackable. Non-stackable banners are displayed individually in the banner announcement area.
   Show for	Scope of the banner announcement display, either for all logged-in users, users with specific roles or groups, or anonymous plus all logged-in users.
   Icon	Icon to depict the urgency or category of the banner announcement. For example, a flame icon shows increased urgency and a graduation cap icon signals continuing learning opportunities.
   Icon tooltip	Text describing the icon.
   Content position	Options for the horizontal position of the banner content.

4. Select and hold (or right-click) the form header and select Save.
   The Associated to Configurations related list displays at the bottom of the form.
5. In the Associated to Configurations related list, select New.

   Figure 1. Associated to Configurations related list

   

6. In the Announcement Config field, select the search icon .
7. Select Unified Navigation from the Banner Announcement Configs list.

   Figure 2. Banner Announcement Configs list

   

8. Optional: On the Banner Announcement Mapping form, set the order of the banner announcement mapping.
   The lower the order of the banner announcement mapping, the higher the priority is of the banner announcement mapping.
9. On the Banner Announcement Mapping form, select Submit.
10. On the Banner Announcement form, select Update.