Emergency Alerts

Campus Safety is absolutely critical and the ability to get a message across all of your webpages quickly is very important. We developed this code to help our users get important messages out as quickly as possible either from within Cascade CMS or via an already used Alert System.
INCLUDED FILES
Format.vm
- Loops through an Index Block of all Emergency Alerts
- Checks if the Emergency Alert is "Active" and has not "Expired"
- Outputs Active Alert
Data-Definition.xml
- Includes "Active" Toggle
- Includes Text Field for Alert Message
Server-Side-Include.xml
- Use this in your Template when declaring your
<system-region>
- Attach the
Alert Index Block
andFormat.vm
in theInternal View
- For the
External View
- create a basic template with one region and attach theAlert Index Block
andFormat.vm
- Use the Publish location in the
path/to/alert
section of theExternal View