Purpose

This function allows administrators to define different display locations for Notices

SubSystem

Connect

A display location is an institution-defined value that can be used to control the areas of Student Connect in which the notice displays.

When a notice is defined it may have one or more Display Locations associated with it.

For notices to appear in Connect, the Display Notice application must be called from each Connect Page that the institution requires it to appear in. This means that the template for each Connect page that Notices will appear in needs to be modified to embed the application. When the message application is called from within the template it has an optional parameter for the Display Location which represents the Connect page that the Notice application is being called from.

For example, an institution may create a display location of “WELCOME” which it associates with certain notices. When the Display Notice application is called from the welcome screen, it will have “WELCOME” passed in as the Display Location parameter. Any notice with the “WELCOME” display location defined to it is considered available to display in this screen.

If the Display Notice application has no parameter passed in when it is called then all notices are considered available to display, regardless of the defined Display Locations.

Using this, institutions may, for example, display different notices in the welcome page compared to the self enrolment pages.

When the Display Notice application is called from the Welcome page, it passes in a Display Location parameter of WELCOME. If a notice has the WELCOME Display Location defined to it, it will be considered available to display (based on other conditions). If it does not, then it is considered not available to display.

The Self Serve Display Location block contains:

• Display Location
• Description
• Closed check box

Rules/Notes:

Display Location and Description is institution defined.

If the Closed check box is selected, the Display Location is not shown in Connect

Display Location

SDL.DISPLAY_ LOCATION_CD

Text

Varchar2(10)

Description

SDL.DESCRIPTION

Text

Varchar2(60)

Closed

SDL.CLOSED_IND

Checkbox

Varchar2(1)

The default is N