pop up box for confluence

[Christopher Dobbs]

I want to display a pop up message box when users login so we can announce various news items.

I want this to behave like the "Whats new in this release" dialog that you get after an upgrade.

I have looked at writing a plugin to acheive this but little unsure what API call to use.

Would be nice to have a history of previous messages too

[Alejandro Conde Carrillo · Accepted solution]

If you want to have a box like the "What's new" dialog, why don't you modify the "What's new" dialog?

You can find more informatino in Configuring the What's New Dialog.

About having a history, you could create a page and store the history there. To make it easily accessible, simply add a link to that page in your custom "What's new" dialog.

[Christopher Dobbs]

that sounds perfect....I will give it a go!

Many thanks

[MatthewC]

I know you specifically asked for a pop-up box but we've also use the site welcome message to display announcements & blog pots, as well as the Custom HTML option.

The only issue with using the What's new option is that users can stop it from appearing by clicking the option.

[Christopher Dobbs]

Many thanks, will look into these too!

[Christopher Dobbs]

I was also very interested in seeing how a plugin can pop up a message box - have been messing with a little plugin of my own for some time but not managed to do that yet.