A number of options are available to administrators to configure the appearance and functionality of your Stacks site. This can include configuration for:

• Alert Settings
• Collections
• Collection Items
• Database Listings
• Directory Listings
• Events
• Header items
• Research Guides
• Searches
• Site-wide settings
• Sliders

Alert Settings

Alerts can be used to communicate critical or important information whether this is 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

Navigate to the Site Configuration dashboard page (Dashboard > System Configuration > Site Configuration).

1. From the Dashboard, click System Configuration
2. Click Site Configuration
3. By default, the screen should open to the Alert Settings, if not click Alert Settings from the panel on the left
   1. Check Enable Pop-up alerts to turn Alerts on
      1. Uncheck to disable the alert
   2. Check Force Pop-up 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