Commit a3f61a09 authored by Marcia Ramos's avatar Marcia Ramos

Merge branch 'docs/document-broadcast-messages-ee' into 'master'

Document broadcast messages in UI

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ee!9248
parents e073279a 74ec1b67
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- [Third party offers](../user/admin_area/settings/third_party_offers.md)
- [Compliance](compliance.md): A collection of features from across the application that you may configure to help ensure that your GitLab instance and DevOps workflow meet compliance standards.
- [Diff limits](../user/admin_area/diff_limits.md): Configure the diff rendering size limits of branch comparison pages.
- [Broadcast Messages](../user/admin_area/broadcast_messages.md): Send messages to GitLab users through the UI.
- [Elasticsearch](../integration/elasticsearch.md): Enable Elasticsearch to empower GitLab's Advanced Global Search. Useful when you deal with a huge amount of data. **[STARTER ONLY]**
- [External Classification Policy Authorization](../user/admin_area/settings/external_authorization.md) **[PREMIUM ONLY]**
- [Upload a license](../user/admin_area/license.md): Upload a license to unlock features that are in paid tiers of GitLab. **[STARTER ONLY]**
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# Broadcast Messages
GitLab can display messages to all users of a GitLab instance in a banner that appears in the UI.
![Broadcast Message](img/broadcast_messages.png)
NOTE: **Note:**
If more than one banner message is active at one time, they are displayed in a stack in order of creation.
## Adding a broadcast message
To display messages to users on your GitLab instance, add broadcast message.
To add a broadcast message:
1. Navigate to the **Admin Area > Messages** page.
1. Add the text for the message to the **Message** field. Markdown and emoji are supported.
1. If required, click the **Customize colors** link to edit the background color and font color of the message.
1. Select a date for the message to start and end.
1. Click the **Add broadcast message** button.
NOTE: **Note:**
Once a broadcast message has expired, it is no longer displayed in the UI but is still listed in the
list of broadcast messages.
## Editing a broadcast message
If changes are required to a broadcast message, they can be edited.
To edit a broadcast message:
1. Navigate to the **Admin Area > Messages** page.
1. From the list of broadcast messages, click the appropriate button to edit the message.
1. After making the required changes, click the **Update broadcast message** button.
TIP: **Tip:**
Expired messages can be made active again by changing their end date.
## Deleting a broadcast message
Broadcast messages that are no longer required can be deleted.
To delete a broadcast message:
1. Navigate to the **Admin Area > Messages** page.
1. From the list of broadcast messages, click the appropriate button to delete the message.
Once deleted, the broadcast message is removed from the list of broadcast messages.
NOTE: **Note:**
Broadcast messages can be deleted while active.
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