Announcement
'Announcement' feature of Desktop Central allows system administrators
to send announcements to all the users within the network. Announcements
can be created to be displayed once or at scheduled intervals. Administrators
can also customize the start and end date for displaying the announcements.
This section will explain you on the following:
Creating an Announcement
- Click Tools tab
- Click Announcement icon
- Click Create Announcement
button
- Enter a Title for the message
that needs to be showed on the client computers
- Enter the 'Message' that
needs to be showed on the client computers
- Specify the start date and the end date for displaying the announcement.
If no end date is specified, then the announcement will be displayed
for ever.
- Set the frequency to display the announcement. You can choose to
display the announcement once or multiple times. When you wanted to
display the announcement multiple times, you can also specify the
time interval for displaying the announcement.
- Select the target computers
- Click Save to save the
changes.
Your announcement has been created successfully. It will be displayed
on the client computers after the specified start date and frequency mentioned
above.
Modifying an Announcement
- Click Tools tab
- Click Announcement icon
- Select the Announcement
that needs to be modified
- Under Actions click on
Modify
- Make necessary changes and click Save
to save the changes.
Your announcement has been successfully modified. The modified announcement
will be displayed to the targets to which the announcement has not been
displayed so far or to the announcements to which it is scheduled to be
displayed.
Suspending an Announcement
- Click Tools tab
- Click Announcement icon
- Select the Announcement
that needs to be suspended
- Under Actions click on
Suspend
- Click Save
to save the changes.
Your announcement has been successfully suspended. This announcement
will not be displayed to the targets henceforth. You can resume this announcement
to continue displaying it in the client computers.
Resuming an Announcement
- Click Tools tab
- Click Announcement icon
- Select the Announcement
that needs to be suspended
- Under Actions click on
Resume
- Click Save
to save the changes.
Your announcement has been successfully resumed. This announcement will
be displayed to the targets as per the schedule or to the computers to
which it was not displayed before.
Deleting an Announcement
- Click Tools tab
- Click Announcement icon
- Select the Announcement
that needs to be suspended
- Under Actions click on
Delete
- Click Yes to
confirm the deletion.
Your announcement has been successfully deleted. This announcement will
not be displayed to any computer henceforth.
FAQs
- What will happen if an announcement
is scheduled to displayed on a computer only once within a specific
time period but the computer is inactive?
- How can i create a new announcement
by editing the existing one?
- What will happen when i suspend
an announcement which is scheduled to be displayed only once?
- What will happen
when an announcement is targeted to an user who is logged on in multiple
computers?
What will happen if an announcement
is scheduled to displayed on a computer only once within a specific
time period but the computer is inactive?
If an announcement is scheduled to be displayed on a computer only
once within a specific time interval and the target computer is inactive
during that time interval then the status of the announcement
will be displayed as "expired", which means is announcement
has not be displayed but the time limit has ended.
How can i create a new
announcement by editing the existing one?
You can follow the steps mentioned below to create a new announcement
by editing the existing one:
- Click Tools tab
- Click Announcement
icon
- Select the Announcement
that needs to be cloned
- Under Actions click
on Save As New
- Make necessary changes and Click
Save to create a new announcement.
What will happen when
i suspend an announcement which is scheduled to be displayed only
once?
If an announcement is suspended, then the announcement will not be
displayed to the client computers henceforth. You can resume the announcement
in future to continue displaying the announcement. However the announcement
will be displayed only if the announcement end date has not been reached
and it will be displayed to computers to which this was not displayed.
What
will happen when an announcement is targeted to an user who is logged
on in multiple computers?
Announcement will be displayed on all the computers wherever the targeted
user is logged on.
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