How to add a Special alert
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.
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.
Add a Special alert
From the Administration bar click My Workbench.
Click the Create/Manage Content tab.
Select Special alert.
Enter the alert message in the Body. This should be short and concise.
Visibility denotes where this Special alert will appear. This field is set to home by default.
Leaving this field set to <front> will result in the Special alert appearing on the home page only.
Leaving this field blank will result in the Special Alert appearing on all pages of your site.
If you would like to limit the pages on which this Special alert appears, enter paths above, one path per line. You may use a backslash and asterisk (/*) to include all items under a path. To exclude a path, start the line with "not".
For example:
newsnews/*not news/special
Under Publishing options select the checkbox beside Published.
Click Save.
Your Special alert will now appear on the home page beneath the banner and/or at the top of any other specified pages.
Remove a Special alert
To remove a Special alert you need to unpublish it.
From the Administration bar select My Workbench.
Select the Create/Manage Content tab.
Select Special alert.
Under Publishing options deselect the checkbox beside Published.
Click Save.
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.
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.