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Admins, notify your Jira instance of system-wide changes with the new admin announcement banner

Vitalii Blinovskov

Hi All!

We’re excited to share the launch of an announcement banner that lets Jira site administrators communicate directly to their users across their Jira Cloud instance.

📢 Get your announcements out

With the new "Announcement banner" page in Jira Admin, you can now set announcements that will be shown as a banner at the top of every Jira page.

Step 1

Click on the Gear icon at the top right of the navigation and navigate to “System” under “JIRA SETTINGS”

Step 2

Find the "Announcement banner" item on your sidebar, under "USER INTERFACE"

Step 3

Configure the banner the way you want, you can:

Set the message of the announcement
Decide whether you want to disable or enable the banner
Decide whether your users should be able to dismiss the banner
Decide whether you want to show the announcement only to users that are logged in or to anyone who visits your Jira instance.

And voila!

When will this feature come to my instance?

We are gradually rolling it out to our customers, it should hit most users by November 2021

Can I add rich formatting and URLs to my announcement?

In this first release, we only support plain text. You can still include a URL, it will be shown as plain text. We've heard you and support for links and rich formatting will be added to our backlog for this feature.

Comments

Dirk Ronsmans

Nice, this will certainly be helpfull for admins if you perform changes to your configuration to communicate that "something has changed"

Will the announcement banner also allow the inclusion of an url? That would be particulary helpfull if you want to link users to for example release notes.

Frédéric VAUTH

Hello,
Thank you for the feature we were waiting for.
Is it possible to include a link to a Confluence page, a service Desk management space?

Yerbol Nisanbayev

Hi all, you can most definetely include a URL it will be shown as plain text. Users can then copy and paste into a browser address bar.

Dirk Ronsmans

Hey @Vitalii Blinovskov ,

I think we were hoping for a clickable url

otherwise it would indeed just be part of the text so we that would be a given

Yerbol Nisanbayev

Hey @Dirk Ronsmans , thank you for your suggestion, this iteration will not support it, but we will note this when we do more work on the announcement banner.

Ignacio Pulgar

Welcome back Announcement Banner!

Thanks Atlassian for bringing it back to life.

I also vote for it to support clickable links since a small message is expected to be added to the banner and you will almost always need to include a link to get more information.

URLs displayed as plain text might be too long, especially for non-dismissable banners, occupying a lot of screen space.

Hopefully we can somehow have links too!

Thanks again and best regards.

Elliot Reiter_zg1zk0

Is tagging text for color, underscore, bold, etc. (like it used to be) available?

Esther Strom

Thank you! We've been waiting for this for years. I hate to ask, but any chance it will be available in Confluence soon?

Anthony De Moss

@Vitalii Blinovskov - any chance this location will be available for plugins to hook into and display something there?

Karen Rogalski

I'm not seeing it in Cloud, are you rolling it out gradually?

Dirk Ronsmans

@Karen Rogalski , the article mentions the following:

When will this feature come to my instance?

We are gradually rolling it out to our customers, it should hit most users by November 2021

Ravi Sagar _Sparxsys_

This is brilliant 👍

Yerbol Nisanbayev

Hey @Ignacio Pulgar @Elliot Reiter - thank you for your feedback, it will be just plain text for this first release, and we added your feedback to our backlog

@Anthony De Moss we did not make it extensible to external apps yet, however we do have requests to make it available in our backlog

Elliot Reiter_zg1zk0

@Yerbol Nisanbayev Thank you. Just having the announcement banner back in Jira Cloud is a big step forward.

Antoine Berry

This is great ! Will it be shipped to Server/DC ?

Yerbol Nisanbayev

Hi @Antoine Berry , thank you. Server/DC should already have this feature as described below, we were just catching up to it in cloud
https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/configuring-an-announcement-banner-938846985.html

vlad.puhach

Nice feature, good stuff!

Evert Morren C

Is the also visible on the user portal?

Evert Morren C

I mean the banner

Edwar Gonzalez

Hola como están, están hablando de jira el software?

https://urufinanza.com/banco-de-seguros/jira/

Yerbol Nisanbayev

@Evert Morren C yes the banner should be visible in all Jira pages.

@Edwar Gonzalez the banner works with Jira Software and all other Jira products.

Lisa N

This is great. I'd love to see the ability to have the banner on specific projects only.

Alison Milne

I agree with the pervious comment. This feature would be great on specific projects.

Yerbol Nisanbayev

@Alison Milne @Lisa N thank you for your feedback, I am afraid we are not planning to extend the functionality at this point but this was noted in the backlog for when we decide to improve the banner in the future.

Scott Fannen_3pgrpo

This is great to have this back again - but I'll also add a vote for the ability to add clickable links (writing "clickable links" is like requesting "readable text") - and any other formatting (line breaks would be nice - even using existing formatting like (backslash, backslash) would be nice too.

But still - thanks! - it's filling a HUGE gap in user communication.

Yatish Madhav

Hi. I only jujst saw this setting ... Thanks for this ... It will be of great help to us in 2022. (Need to subscribe to these updtes here ) Also, yes, agree to configuring it more, eg. rich text, custom color, etc. Thank you again. Yatish

Omar Rashid_n747rd

Will this cloud banner allow the execution of custom code like the data centre version does, to hide certain elements of the UI such as:

{ box.checked = false; }
}
</script>

#ghx-chart-viewing-options {
display: none !important;}

#announcement-banner {
display: none !important;}

</style>

Christian Voigt

In the posts above the backlog containing ideas for improvments for the announcment banner was mentioined several times.

Took me some time to find the corresponding tickets. However, here there are:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-77723

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-43228

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-34144

I voted on all 3 of them since those would extend the usecases of the banner - and would be happy if others do the same.

Yerbol Nisanbayev

Hi @Omar Rashid

we do not support that functionality at this time.

Thank you @Christian Voigt !

James Newland

Having just made the jump from Jira Server to Cloud, this implementation is a regression. Hopefully it can be brought back up to previous standards soon.

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