News

• Sources link: https://github.com/pluginsGLPI/news
• Download: https://github.com/pluginsGLPI/news/releases

Requirements for latest version

This plugin requires :

• PHP 7.2 or higher
• GLPI >= 9.4

Features

This plugin allows to display alerts messages on GLPI homepage and / or login page.

• Create alert with rich text as for notes.
• Choice of begin/end publication date.
• Manage alerts by entity.
• Target : display alerts by profile / group / user.

Install the Plugin

• Uncompress the archive.
• Move the news directory to the <GLPI_ROOT>/plugins directory
• Navigate to the Configuration > Plugins page,
• Install and activate the plugin.

Usage

The plugin will create required tables in the database automatically. Those tables will be updated along with the plugin.

Plugin usage is quite simple:

• configure alerts

You will access the plugin configuration from the Tools > Alerts.

Create alerts

• Name : display as talert title
• Active : is active or not
• Description : content of alert
• Visibility start / end : period of Visibility
• Type : type of alert (General, Information, Warning, Problem)
• Can close alert : User can close alert ?
• Show on login page : display or not alert on login page
• Show on helpdesk page : display or not alert on helpdesk page
• Sub-entity : display or not on sub-entity

Targets

You can define target by type

• Group : for all users of group
• Profil : for all users with profile
• User : for specifi user

Display on login page

Display on helpdesk page