Banner configuration

A notice at the top of the page: planned maintenance on Saturday, a release going out, a process changing on Monday. One Global banner for the whole workspace, plus a Project banner per project for things only that team needs to read. Each has a severity style, a schedule, and a choice about whether people may dismiss it.

On RedminePRO Cloud

Availability

Business and above.

Turn it on

The workspace-wide notice is at Administration → Banner and needs no module.

For a per-project notice: Project → Settings → Modules → tick Banner. A Banner entry then appears in the project menu for whoever holds the permission below.

Permissions

Administration → Roles and permissions, in the Banner section:

The Global banner is administrators only — it is seen by everybody, so it is not a per-project right.

Settings

Administration → Plugins → RedminePRO Banner:

Leave it off unless you need it. A banner is displayed to everyone, so widening what its text may contain widens what anyone who can write one can put in front of the whole workspace.

Using it

1. Open Administration → Banner, or a project's Banner page.
2. Write the Message and pick a Style: Info, Warning, Critical or Maintenance.
3. Choose Display on for a project banner — Overview page only, Overview + new issue page, or All project pages.
4. Set Show from and Show until if it should appear and disappear on its own. Both are a date and a time. Leave them empty for a notice you will turn off by hand.
5. Tick Users can dismiss this banner if it is an announcement rather than a standing warning. A dismissal is remembered per person.
6. Also show on the login page puts a workspace-wide notice in front of people before they sign in — the right choice for planned downtime.
7. Enabled is the on switch. Preview shows exactly how it will render.

The status beside each banner reads Live, Scheduled, Expired or Off, so you can tell at a glance why something is or is not showing.

Troubleshooting

The banner is not showing. Check the status. Off means Enabled is unticked; Scheduled means Show from has not arrived; Expired means Show until has passed.

It is showing on the wrong pages. Display on controls that for a project banner. Overview page only is the default and the quietest choice.

Someone cannot see it and everyone else can. They dismissed it. A dismissal is per person and permanent for that banner, which is why Users can dismiss this banner should be off for anything people must keep seeing.

No Banner entry in the project menu. Either the module is off for that project, or the account lacks Manage the project banner.

An image will not render. Allow images in banner text is off. Turn it on knowing that it widens what anyone able to write a banner can display to everyone.

The times look wrong. Show from and Show until follow the workspace's time zone, not the reader's.