Automatically display the red 'UB Alert' banner on your site during a campus emergency.
Place this component immediately under the main UB 'Reaching Others' banner on your site's Header, which is located in your Site-Wide Configuration folder.
Add
the component to the page. No settings need to be adjusted in
this component, but you will need to adjust your home page's
properties.
The component as first displayed on the page, placed directly under the main UB banner.
To ensure that the banner will display on your site as soon as it is loaded on the master emergency.buffalo.edu site, you will need to set a Flush Trigger on your site's home page.
In your home page's Page Properties, in the Advanced tab, under Server Caching, add a new Flush Trigger with this URL:
/content/shared/www/emergency
Do not be alarmed. Unless there is a campus crisis, the banner will NOT be visible on your home page even in the Author environment. It will, however, always be displayed on your header configuration page.
Add a flush trigger to your home page's Page Properties.
When a UB Alert is posted during a campus emergency, this component will display as a red banner on select websites, such as UB Reporter, the News Center, the UB home page, and the main Emergency Management site.
An example of a UB Alert banner on the main home page.
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March 29, 2017