There is often could be task to inform user with some information without sending him emails or SMSs to avoid flooding it inbox. The Dashboard alert feature allows you to put an alert on the users dashboard page to a specific groups of users. It’s a very good visible, so possibility to lost this information by the user is very tiny.

There are several types of alerts. Depending of it dashboard alert will change it’s frontend look.

• Success
• Primary
• Info
• Warning
• Danger

Select the type which will give the alert the appropriate style, ie 'success' for positive alerts, danger or warning to indicate something bad might happen, etc.

For creating a new alert you should use “create new alert” button in the left side of the page and specify a website for this alert. While creating you will be redirected immediately to the managing alert page.

The list of alerts are located a bit below. Each of them has a status indicator which shows a current status of a alert, wide description of alert which describes details of it’s work and usual drop-down controls for editing and deleting an alert.

Status could be:

• None - for new and draft alerts
• Enabled - for showing alert on the users dashboard
• Disabled - for editing alert
• Event - this a variant of the enabled status, however if you choose it you need to configure additional trigger to make it work. It gives you a possibility to show alert to specific users which will be chosen by a complex expression.