Site Wide Announcement - OSC/ood-dashboard GitHub Wiki
To add a site-wide announcement message create a file containing markdown text at /etc/ood/config/announcement.md. To change the location of the announcement file to load, set the OOD_ANNOUNCEMENT_PATH environment variable prior to launching the dashboard.
On each request the dashboard will check for the existence of this file. If it exists, the contents will be converted using markdown converter to HTML and displayed inside a bootstrap alert.
For example, if I create an announcement.md file with the contents:
**NOTICE:** There will be a two day downtime on February 21-22, 2017. OSC
OnDemand will be unavailable during this period. For details, please visit
[http://bit.ly/2jhfyh7](http://bit.ly/2jhfyh7).
the user would see this message at the top of the dashboard:
