I have a new add-on for you: The Announcement Add-on for professional system announcements.
What does the add-on do?
The Announcement Add-on allows you to display announcements for maintenance windows, outages and important information directly in Znuny - for agents and customers.
Features:
- Three announcement types - Info (blue), Warning (orange), Critical (red)
- Flexible target audiences - Agents only or Agents and Customers
- Login Banner - Show important info before login
- Scheduled publishing - Valid from/to for automatic show/hide
- WYSIWYG Editor - Formatted content with bold, lists, links
- Header Display - Colored badge shows highest severity
- Fullscreen Overlay - View all active announcements at a glance
- Announce planned maintenance windows
- Communicate current outages
- Introduce new features
- Important notices for all users
- Permissions via AnnouncementManager group (RW/RO)
- 5 minute cache (configurable)
- Data persists after uninstallation
- German and English translations
- Znuny 7.2.x
- Repository: https://codeberg.org/wolkig-it/znuny_announcement
- Blog post with screenshots: https://wolkig.it/de/blog/znuny-announcement-addon/
- Documentation: In the repository under /docs
License:
GNU GPL v3 - free to use, open source, contributions welcome!
Feedback and suggestions for improvement are welcome!
This add-on was created with the help of Claude Code - feel free to ask if you're interested in the development methodology.
Best regards
Stephan Lang
wolkig.it
This is an English translation of the original German post, published to reach a wider audience.