Keep your users in the loop with a maintenance message

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This really helps your app look professional and a benefit for the people using the app. This appears everywhere in your app and you can change the text in the JS and the color in the css

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Javascript

var newDiv = document.createElement("div");
newDiv.id = "appUsersMessage";
newDiv.textContent = "Site Maintanance Planned on the 12/05/2023 at 3:00am - 6:00am";
var bodyElement = document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0];
bodyElement.insertBefore(newDiv, bodyElement.firstChild);

CSS

#appUsersMessage {
    text-align: center;
    background: rgb(209, 119, 23);
    color:black;
}
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Thanks @Johnny_Appknowledged_UK - very useful snippet :+1:

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This is great! I think this is a superb feature request, too, for built-in functionality. I will take it forward to Kara

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@Ally I think this is a great idea perhaps if knack yourselves are doing maintenance we could have a option to allow for knack to update our users on performance updates with this type of messages. It might also help save time on responding to tickets your end.

I was thinking the feature could also have set messages for set times.

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Just found the below message, I had obviously forgotten to send this reply:
Good thinking! I have logged the feature request, and linked to this forum so when it is being looked at, I am sure this thread will be opened up for questions and comments.

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Excellent snippet Johnny, thanks a lot!