Contact all online users - pop up

Gregory DAVRIU

Current situation:
In Board Windows version there was a useful option to support administration: Send message to online user
This function was useful to inform all online users, through a popup windows, of any important action done in the server. (i.e: informing maintenance).
In Board Web this is replaced with the chat function.

Limitation:

Chat is not giving a popup windows to online users, they will only have a notification on the side of their session.
Chat need to be created either with only online user or all users. The first approach will require Admin to create a new group every time, the second will send unnecessary messages to offline users.

To-Be/Request:

Offer to Admin using the web version off Board to send pop up messages to online users.
This will help for emergency maintenance activities and will avoid DB or capsules corruption when users are updating capsules or DM.
Even if Board is on it's Web form it would be great to offer more controls to Admin over online users.

Product Management Team

Hi Gregory, thanks for the idea. Great news, this is now available.

You need to be a Feed author to edit and create feeds and you now also have a button "Confirm as read" button too along with read receipts which states who all have read your feed already. Here are the manual links for detailed information: https://www.boardmanual.com/2021/summer/administration/Subscription_Hub/4a_Collaboration/User_groups/about_user_groups.htm?rhhlterm=feeds%20feed%20authorizations%20author%20authors&rhsearch=feed%20author) + https://www.boardmanual.com/2021/summer/whats-new-release-notes/summer-2021-release/Main_features/Collaboration_services/feed.htm?rhsearch=feed&rhhlterm=feed