Add ability for admins (or certain authorized users) to send system-wide messages to users. This would be a message log system such that logged-in users would get the notification and users who hadn't been logged-in at the time would still be presented the message upon next log-in. Utilize a flag system so the user can mark the message as read and also use a validity date range so old unread messages wouldn't show for a user who hadn't read an old irrelevant message.
by: Parker B. | over a year ago | Technical
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yep - that's exactly what we need. I like the idea that the msg will popup to users who login after the msg has been sent but before the validity datetime expires:
i often need to send a msg e.g. at 9am to all users that the system will be shut down for maint at 12pm. there's no need for people logging in at 1pm to get the message but anyone logging in before 12pm should get it.
also it would be great getting the feedback (or being able to see it somewhere) so if users tick a box to show they've read the msg I can then see who might need an individual phonecall before i shut the system down at 12pm
Nice spec of the requirement Parker B.