Alerts can be used to communicate critical or important information whether this is special holiday hours, unexpected closures, special events and more. Administrators have the ability to not only create an alert, but also specify where the alert will appear on the website.

By default the alert will only be displayed once, however administrators can choose to force the message to display each time the page is loaded. 

Enabling Alerts

1. From the Dashboard, click System Configuration
2. Click Site Configuration
3. Click Alert Settings from the panel on the left
   1. Enable Pop-up, check or uncheck this box to enable or disable the Alerts
   2. Force Pop-up, check this box to force the alert to appear each time the page loads
   3. Location, choose from:
      1. Homepage - to have the alert to appear on the configured homepage
      2. My account - for the alert to appear on the patron "my-account" page
      3. URL - to have the alert appear on a custom made page
         1. You must add the path in the Specific url field below
   4. Title -  add the title, this will be displayed in large text
   5. Body - add a short message that will be displayed under the title
   6. Click Save configuration