Add Alert Banners to the Homepage

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

Important

You are viewing documentation for Alation’s Classic User Experience.

You can add your company’s logo and brand color to Alation to make the Alation experience feel more like your company. Your logo will appear on the login screen and the top left corner of Alation pages, including homepages that are configured to use a small search banner. Your brand color will be used for icons and tab titles throughout the catalog. It also affects the search banner’s background on homepages where the search banner is configured to use the theme color.

  1. Catalog Admins: Click on the Settings gear icon in the top right corner. A dropdown menu appears. Click Alerts.

    Server Admins: Click on the Settings gear icon in the top right corner. The Admin Settings page appears. From the System Monitor section, click Alerts.

  2. In the Message box, enter the desired text. Your changes are saved automatically.

  3. Select a Style.

  4. In the Turn ON / OFF section, click the toggle button to enable or disable the alert banner.

Available from 2022.1

Alation provides a customizable alerts banner that appears on the homepage, right below the search banner. You can choose one of four banner styles and enter custom text to provide messaging to your Alation users.

Starting in 2022.2, users can dismiss the alert. It will reappear as soon as any kind of change is made to the alert content or style.

To enable and configure the alerts banner:

  1. Catalog Admins: Click on the Settings gear icon in the top right corner. A dropdown menu appears. Click Alerts.
    Server Admins: Click on the Settings gear icon in the top right corner. The Admin Settings page appears. Under the Catalog Admin section, click Alerts.

  2. In the Message box, enter the desired text. Your changes are saved automatically.

    Note

    Starting in 2022.2, you can apply rich text formatting with the provided toolbar. In 2022.1, formatting is not supported.

  3. Select a Style.

  4. In the Turn ON / OFF section, click the toggle button to enable or disable the alert banner.