Text fields and options:

Name of message:

Use this field to enter a name (headline) for your message that will be displayed on the main page of the Information System to those who have not read it yet. Please make sure that the name is meaningful and indicates what the message is about. Please do not use any HTML tags in the text.

Message:

Use this field for entering your message. The lines containing more than 72 characters are broken into shorter ones automatically. Provided the text contains an Internet address, it is displayed as a hypertext reference. After posting the message, please check it to ensure that it is displayed correctly. If this is not the case, make the necessary changes by editing it. You can also remove it and enter it again.

HTML text:

Provided you are familiar with HTML, you can also use its tags in the text of your message (including the ones utilized for formatting it). When using HTML, the Internet addresses that you want to be displayed as hypertext references should also be enclosed in appropriate tags since otherwise these, as opposed to the previously mentioned text-only mode, are not displayed as references automatically.

Expiration date:

This is the date on which the message expires, i.e. becomes inaccessible to everyone including the person who has posted it. The date must be later than the current one and its provision is required.

Who will see the message as blue:

This section offers menus listing the groups of users to whom the message is to be displayed as 'blue' (i.e. as the one of medium importance) and in the upper part of message list. All the messages posted on the Noticeboard are accessible to all the users logged in the System. Provided you consider your message equally important to everyone, ignore this section.

The message is intended mainly for the students/doctoral students/staff of a certain faculty:

Please specify the groups of users you intend your message for by using the drop-down menus. It will be displayed to these as 'blue' (preceded by

) and its headline will be placed in the upper part of message list.

The message is highly important and I want it to be displayed to a certain group of users on the main page of the Information System:

Please ask an owner of the n_manip right to mark your message as that of high importance, i.e. the one which is 'red' (preceded by

). The reference to the list of users who have the n_manip right can be found behind the text of your saved message.

Importance of messages posted on the Noticeboard:

A message can have one of the three degrees of importance. The degree of importance is set for every individual user and depends on whether he/she belongs to the group specified for this degree.

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  The message is displayed to you as the one of high importance (red) provided you belong to the group of users for whom it is marked as highly important.

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  The message is displayed to you as the one of medium importance (blue) provided you belong to the group of users for whom it is not marked as highly important.

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  If you do not belong to any of the groups selected for marking, the message is displayed to you as white (one of the 'others').

Messages displayed to all the IS users:

If you want your message to be displayed to all the users of the Information System as 'blue' (i.e. that of medium importance) or 'red' (that of high importance), post it and contact the System administrators at giving them a reason why you think the message should be visible to all the 20.000 users. Provided they find the reason well-founded, they will change the priority of your message within the next couple of days. Editing your message in the future will cause it to lose its original setting (i.e. it will cease to be displayed to all the users). In such a situation, please contact the System administrators again asking them to renew the setting.