The News provide built-in notification system, allowing to send messages over application’s users.

To mark news read by timeout or delete them, for scheduler have to be configured running class News once a day.

News may be listed and added via a separated tool. Every news can be read once by every recipient, by default only unread news are shown.

When adding a news, you have to define a title and text, which can contain HTML markup. News recipients can be restricted from all active users to only members of groups, selected in the right area.

A news can be defined as Popup or Regular. The first type is shown for all targeted recipients in popping up windows, after that is treated as read.

Regular news do not bother users else as with blinking counter of unread messages in the top right corner.

Clicking on that brings the user to the list of unread news.