Often we recycle Non prod server or even prod server during business hours. ideally we send email to users but not all the time users will see email as they continue to work in PeopleSoft. so thought there should be a interactive way to notify the users about downtime or maintenance etc.
Peopelsoft provides push notification but it does not give the option to broadcast for performance reasons.
Here is the simple approach to broadcast any message. for example i need to shutdown one of my production server at specific time so now i am going to push this message
1. Navigate to Peopletools - Portal - Branding - Define Branding Headers and Footers
2.Bring up your header in this case fluid.
3.Navigate to company info and click on additional options
4.Enable Company banner area.
5.Add below marquee text so that it will scroll at the top and its eye catchy users can read and save their work.
<marquee direction="left" height="20px" width="100%"> System Will Go down in 10 minutes for Maintenance.We will be back @ 12 PM EST. Sorry for the inconvenience. </marquee>
Output/Result.
Beauty of this approach is no cache clear is required . PeopleSoft brilliantly uses rowset cache method for company info which works well.
