Setting the announcement banner
There will often be times when you will need to make a change to the system, where you need to take JIRA down for a period of time. In a production environment, where there is a high reliance on the uptime, this can lead to unnecessary disruption to the users if not planned and communicated accordingly. JIRA recognizes this and provides a facility to help by letting administrators place an announcement banner on every page in JIRA. Together with traditional methods, such as e-mail alerts, day-to-day business disruptions caused by system downtime can be minimized.
Perform the following steps to put up an announcement banner in JIRA:
- Browse to the JIRA administration console.
- Click on Announcement Banner in the left ...
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