Announcements

Ostendo has the capability of receiving announcements directly from Development-X. This is useful for Development-X to convey new features and fixes that have been included in automatic Minor Updates or general communications from Development-X to end users.  You can then optionally email these onto Non Ostendo users.

Unread announcements can then be marked as ‘Read’. All announcements (Read or Unread) remain in the log thereby allowing users to review previous entries.

The Main Header Bar of Ostendo shows a heading “Ostendo Announcements” for all users.

If you click on this heading, an Announcements screen will be launched, which provides a log of read and unread announcements. 

Setup:

All user are able to view Announcements, however only some can mark an announcement as Read. There is a option in User Security and Options to ‘Flag Announcements as Read'. 

NB: By default, no users can mark announcements as read, therefore this setting should be updated for at least one user.

Process:

Display unread announcements by clicking on the heading to display the Announcements List screen. 

By default only Unread announcements are displayed.

1. Click on All Announcements to show all previous announcements including those that have been Read
2. Using Search Bar allows you to search on Announcement body test

• Display the Announcement detail by pressing the Detail tab

• From this screen you can email this announcement to anyone by pressing the Email button.

• To flag the Announcement as “Read” simply tick the “Announcement Read” box. This will remove this announcement from the Announcement count on the Main Header Bar. NB: Only users with this option allowed in User Security and Options can control whether an announcement is read or not.