Setting the announcement banner
There will often be times when you will need to make a change to the system, where you need to take JIRA down for a period of time. In a production environment, where there is a high reliance on the uptime, this can lead to unnecessary disruption to the users if not planned and communicated accordingly. JIRA recognizes this and provides a facility to help by letting administrators place an announcement banner on every page in JIRA. Together with traditional methods, such as e-mail alerts, day-to-day business disruptions caused by system downtime can be minimized.
Perform the following steps to put up an announcement banner in JIRA:
Browse to the JIRA administration console.
Click on Announcement Banner in the left panel. This will bring up the Edit Announcement Banner page.
Specify the announcement. This can be any simple text, valid HTML markup, CSS, or JavaScript.
Select if you want this announcement to be public, where everyone will be able to see, or private...
