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How to add a Special alert

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A Special alert displays at the top of pages you specify (see example below), surrounded by a red border. A Special alert can be created by a Site manager or by someone who has been given the Special alerter role. You can only have one special alert active on a site.

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Note: Special alerts should ONLY be used to convey urgently important information, and was designed to be a quick sentence or two - not multiple paragraphs of information.

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Add a Special alert

  1. From the Administration bar click My Workbench.

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Info

Known issue:

When the special alert information is taller than the left navigation, the body content will become left-justified beneath the navigation. Editing down the special alert and then linking it to a page that has the full details is suggested.

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Other site templates

Conference

The Special alert content type is not available for this template.

Publication

The Special alert content type is not available for this template.

Single Page

The Special alert content type is available for this template and follows the same steps as outlined above.