Site-Wide or Incident Specific Alert with Feedback

[aarontitus]

Original author: v...@aarontitus.net (March 28, 2013 22:56:58)

Site-wide Alert Feature for Super admin only:

• Write/edit an HTML-enabled message/alert that will appear on every page, site-wide.
• Choose whether the message should appear to all users on all pages, or just logged-in users on all pages.
• Choose the color scheme of the alert: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Gray, Blue, White, Black.
• Choose the start and end times for display.
• Make it possible to save alerts
• Make it possible to schedule multiple alerts in advance.
• Delete saved alert
• Allow users to click to hide the alert for the current session.
• Under each alert, include a link that says "Feedback" for users who are logged in. When clicked, a small textarea opens up. The user may type feedback.
• Any feedback is emailed to the super admin.

Incident-specific Alert Feature for Super Admin and Local Admin

• A separate interface available to Super Admin and Local Admin
• Write/edit an HTML-enabled message/alert that will appear on every page, for the incident for which the person is logged in.
• The alert appears on all pages for those logged into the same incdent only.
• Choose the color scheme of the alert: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Gray, Blue, White, Black.
• Choose the start and end times for display.
• Make it possible to save alerts
• Make it possible to schedule multiple alerts in advance.
• Delete saved alert
• Allow users to click to hide the alert for the current session.
• Under each alert, include a link that says "Feedback" for users who are logged in. When clicked, a small textarea opens up. The user may type feedback.
• Any feedback is emailed to the super admin and local admin.

Uses: Site maintenance alerts, announcements of milestones, "attaboy" messages, links to celebrate members' achievements. Feedback is just to help users feel engaged, and find out whether the messages are having any effect.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/sandy-disaster-recovery/issues/detail?id=223

[wodow]

Maps-only basic implementation available as of 414ece1d448a5f9f50f05604a8a16a6cad69f4ea.

[wodow]

And on the front pages too as of fbb20e95acb2f3b95ffd004d8b7d71170d27a89c.