Add page title to separate production stage from test

Question

Hi guys,

we use to stages for our JIRA application.

Often it happens that people made changes in the test stage because the looking of the toolbar was the same. We already changed the colours but we want to add a little statement "Teststage" next to the logo.

How can we do this? Is there a better solution than the announcement banner?

Thank you guys.

Daniel Ebers · Answer

Years back when I faced the same issue it helped to kill SSO login from the non-production environments.
Requiring the users to type in their username and password made them recognize that it is NOT production environment (^= behaving differently).

When slowed down by some seconds and then >additionally< seeing a different color, an announcement banner and probably a different logo (all that was already mentioned above) they recognized it is not non-production environment where they landed.

And, finally, this sounds bitter as a grapefruit but is telling the truth: after having inserted important data one or two times while recognizing this is going no where but on a test environment staff learned and it did not repeat. Although I do not like this kind of education.

Regards,
Daniel

Radek Dostál · Answer

You could try something like in ann. banner which will just add some HTML next to the logo. document.querySelector("#logo > a > span").insertAdjacentHTML('afterEnd', 'TESTSTAGE'); Other than that - need to upload a new logo I suppose. But from my point of view, I doubt that people look at logo, that's not the point of interest when they want to do something. Can barely see it peripherally.

Tobias · Answer

Hi @Radek Dostál and @Piet Pieters 
the possibilities you describe are nice but I want to add it next to the logo and not underneath. We reached this with a statement in the announcement banner but after my dump, the announcement box is empty :(
Do you have an idea how I can add a bold statement next to the logo something like "Teststage" oder something else.

Thank you in advance.