Summary

System Administrators can configure an announcement banner to display pertinent information on all Jira pages. The banner can be used to relate important information (e.g. scheduled server maintenance, approaching project deadlines, etc.) to all users. Further, the banner visibility level can be configured to display to all users or just logged-in users.

Configuring an announcement banner

1. In the upper-right corner of the screen, select Administration  > System.

2. Under User interface (the left-side panel), select Announcement banner.
3. Enter the required text in the Announcement field.
4. Select the required Visibility level for the banner.
5. Select the Save button.

Depending on the visibility level selected, the banner will become visible throughout Jira.

Banner Dismissing mode

The announcement banner configuration page has the option to allow users to dismiss the announcement banner and not display it on their screens anymore.

• When the toggle is slid to on mode, the users seeing the announcement banner can click on the X button to not see the banner again

• When the toggle is slid to off mode, the users can't dismiss the announcement banner and they will see it continually.

Banner visibility mode

The announcement banner visibility level can be configured to specify to whom the banner will be displayed. There are two modes:

• Public — the banner is visible to everyone
• Private — the banner is visible to logged-in users only.

Disabling the Announcement Banner

The announcement banner configuration page has the option to disable the announcement banner, sliding the toggle to off, the banner will be not displayed on users' screens.

Add rich text to the Announcement Banner

At this moment the ability to add rich text such as hyperlinks and rich formatting: bold, italic, and various font sizes and colors, to the announcement banner, is not available, for this matter, a Feature Request was raised that is being tracked here: JRACLOUD-77723 - Getting issue details... STATUS