Announcements

Overview

The Announcements area shows in the far left side of the top bar. It can be used to distribute important notifications to users of your intranet hub.

The announcements are created in a SharePoint list within the main hub site, and can be assigned one of two levels of importance, and have an expiry date. You can include rich content in the Announcement body, such as images or formatted text.

When you have more than one announcement created to be shown, the Announcements area turns into a ticker which will flick through the list of announcements, with a delay between each.

Viewing an Announcement

When you click on an Announcement, the details appear in a panel from the right hand side. The details here show the announcement name, the date it was posted and the body of the announcement, along with any rich content that was set.

Creating an Announcement

To create a new Announcement, navigate to Site contents from the Cog menu.

Find the Announcements list in Site Contents, then open it.

From the New menu, choose "Mercury Announcement"

Complete the details then click Save. Your new announcement will appear in the Top Bar.

When the expiry date passes, the announcement will no longer be shown in the Top Bar.

Full Width Announcements

Announcements can be displayed as full width in the command bar.

To do this go to Announcements in the config panel and enable full width.

The speed and direction of the ticker can also be modified.

Manually enabling full width using the 'topbarconfig.json' file ensure that 'fullwidthCommandBarItems' exists, see below.

Find 'commandBarItems'. Below this you will need to add:

"fullwidthCommandBarItems": [

 ]

Now inside the block you will need to add the announcement command bar item from 'commandBarItems'.

Save the file and your announcement command will now display full width below the command bar.