The announcement area allows posting important notices such as start/end dates of certain applications, links to permanent webforms and external websites/pages (eg. enquiry form, press release, etc), scheduled maintenance, etc.
The announcement can be restricted to people in certain CiviGroup/Drupal role.
You can also specify start/end dates for showing the announcement.
You can create and edit announcements from ‘Manage SSP Content’ under SSP user menu.
Fields that exist on this content type are:
* = Required
Title - text field *
Description - Long text field
Show this announcement on dashboard - Date picker
User roles - checkboxes
Display example of SSP Announcement content in the SSP dashboard