About Startup Notices

Startup Notices are displayed at the SignUp Client after a user clicks the Logon button, and before they enter their logon details. The users must acknowledge and/or accept the terms displayed on the message before they can log on. If a user clicks the Cancel button, the SignUp Client will return to the initial screen, and the user will not be able to log on.

Startup Notices are not displayed during an administrator logon or a librarian logon.

Startup Notices are selected for each Computer Group at SignUp > Computer Groups > [selected Computer Group] > Advanced Category > Startup Notice.

The Startup Notices context is available under SignUp in the Context Tree:

Adding a new Startup Notice

To add a new Startup Notice

In the Startup Notices context Actions pane, select the Insert action ( ). This opens the Insert Startup Notice dialog, which collects the necessary information and creates a new Startup Notice entry with it.

In the Insert Startup Notice dialog box, configure the following properties. Note that a property with a small error icon next to it are mandatory properties. You have to supply values to these properties in order to complete adding a new Startup Notice.

General Properties	Do this
Name	Enter a name for the new Startup Notice
Caption	Enter the text to display on the new Startup Notice
Description	Enter a description of the message to display to users.
OK Button Text	Enter the text to be displayed on the button that users click to proceed with logging on
Cancel Button Text	Enter the text to be displayed on the button that users click to cancel the logon.

The new Startup Notice entry is inserted into the Pharos Database.

To delete an existing Startup Notice entry, select an entry and click the Delete option on the Startup Notices context Actions pane ( ).

Startup Notice Properties

The following details can be configured for each Startup Notice listed in Pharos Administrator.

Property	Description
Name	The Startup Notice name uniquely identifies a Startup Notice in the Pharos system.
Caption	The caption that appears in the title bar of the Startup Notice window when it is displayed at the SignUp Client. By default, the caption is the same as the Notice's name.
Description	The main body of the message to display to users.
OK Button Text	The text to be displayed on the button that users click to proceed with logging on. The default text is "OK", but this can be altered to something more suitable for the site, e.g. "Yes - I Accept".
Cancel Button Text	The text to be displayed on the button that users click to cancel the logon. The default text is "Cancel", but this can be altered to something more suitable for the site, e.g. "No - I Do Not Accept".