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The built-in system announcement feature is simple and handy to create ad-hoc announce-
ment messages. Since you can use any valid HTML tags, you need to make sure you close
your tags properly. Otherwise, this can lead to JIRA being unable to render its pages cor-
rectly. When this happens, you can remove the announcement content directly from the
database with the following SQL statements:
select pt.id, pt.propertyvalue from propertytext pt join
propertyentry pe on pt.id=pe.id where
pe.property_key='jira.alertheader';
update propertytext set propertyvalue='' where id='<id from
above>';
There is an add-on called Public Announcement Service for JIRA which provides you with
more intelligence. For example, you can schedule announcements ahead of time and let the
system display them when the time comes, and you can set expiry dates on announcements
and the system will automatically take them down at the right time. You can download the
add-on from the following link:
To use the add-on's advanced announcement management features, perform the following
steps:
1. Navigate to
Administration
|
System
|
Public Announcement Service
.
2. Set the start time for the announcement. This is the time for the announcement to
start appearing.
3. Set the end time for the announcement. This is the time for the announcement to
stop appearing.
4. Set the announcement message.
5. Provide an option URL for users to click on to get more information on the event.
6. Restrict the visibility of the announcement by optionally specifying the groups that
will see it.
7. Click on the
Schedule
button to schedule the announcement.
Once scheduled, JIRA will automatically display the announcement as per its start time.
For example, as shown in the following screenshot, the scheduled
System Review Meeting
announcement will be displayed on April 8, 2014:
