System Banner Alert Message
You can create a system wide banner message that will display on all the pages within the Windchill application.
Turning on the alert banner feature
1. Put the following line code into <Windchill>\codebase\netmarkets\jsp\util\begin_custom.jspf
<%@ include file="/netmarkets/jsp/util/banner_custom.jspf"%>
2. Restart the Embedded Servlet Engine.
Character Encoding Considerations
On recent versions of Tomcat the following line should be added to begin_custom.jspf to ensure that the character set is set to UTF-8. Otherwise content may not display correctly.
<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %>
Displaying the alert message on the top of Windchill UI pages
Write the alert message with html format into the following file: <Windchill>\codebase\netmarkets\jsp\util\banner.txt
For example:
<div
style="float:left;
clear: both;
position: absolute;
margin: 2px 170px;
padding: 3px;
border: 1px solid #000;
background-color: #fff;
top: 3px;
color: #006600;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 12px;
z-index: 1000">
<font face="verdana">
<!-- Banner begins here -->
Windchill server will be down 1/1 for maintenance
<!-- Banner ends here -->
</font>
</div>
Removing the alert message from Windchill UI page
Set <Windchill>\codebase\netmarkets\jsp\util\banner.txt as empty file.
Turning off the alert banner feature
1. Set <Windchill>\codebase\netmarkets\jsp\util\begin_custom.jspf as an empty file
2. Restart the Embedded Servlet Engine.