As a Dashboard Admin user, you may add and modify messages to appear on your company’s dashboards for location users.
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Adding a Message of the Day
You may add messages to appear in the header section of any or all of your company’s dashboards for any set period of time.
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| title | ⦿ How to add a Message of the Day |
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- On the Edit Message of the Day page, select the desired dashboard from the Choose Dashboard drop-down list. The messages that were added earlier to the selected dashboard display.
- Click Add Message of the Day (Show Form). The Edit Day Message pop-up window appears.
- Enter the desired Start Date and Expire Date.
- Enter the desired message. (Optionally, use the format bar at the top of the message area to format your text or add links to the message.)
- (Optional) To display the message in all dashboards, check the Apply to all dashboards box.
- Click Create. The new message appears in the message list, and will display to users of the selected dashboard(s) on the specified date/time.
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Modifying a Message of the Day
You may modify the start and end dates or edit a previously added message; however, you may not assign a message that you initially set for a specific dashboard to all dashboards or vice versa.
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| title | ⦿ How to edit a Message of the Day |
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- On the Edit Message of the Day page, select the desired dashboard from the Choose Dashboard drop-down list. The messages that were added earlier to the selected dashboard display.
- Click Edit next to the desired message.
- Modify the necessary fields. Note that you would not be able to change the dashboard(s) to which you assigned the message initially.
- Click Update. The updated message appears in the list of messages, and will display in the selected dashboard(s) on the specified date/time.
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| title | ⦿ How to delete a Message of the Day |
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- On the Edit Message of the Day page, select the desired dashboard from the Choose Dashboard drop-down list. The list of messages that were added earlier displays.
- Check the boxes next to the desired messages, and click Remove at the top of the list. The selected messages are removed from the list.
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The format bar in the Edit Dashboard message window allows you to format text (color, font etc) and add links.
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| title | ⦿ How to Add Links to a Dashboard Message |
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- To add a link to a text, select the desired text to be hyperlinked, and click the link icon. The Link pop-up appears.
- (Optional) Modify the display text.
- Select the desired protocol, and enter the URL of the target.
- (Optional) Select a desired display target, and specify settings for the display target when required.
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