Sending Notifications to Stations
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The system administrator may send the users informational messages including: •message text; •hyperlinks to Internet resources; •company logo (or any other graphic presentation); •exact date of message receipt in the title of the window. These messages are displayed on user’s computer as popup windows (see figure below). Message window on a station under Windows OS To send a message to a user 1.Select the Anti-virus network item in the main menu of the Control Center. 2.In the opened window, select a station or a group in the hierarchical list and click 3.Specify the following fields in the opened window: •Message text—an obligatory field containing the message itself. •Set the Show logotype in the message flag, to display a graphical object in the message window title. Specify the following logotype parameters: ▫Set the Use transparency flag to use a transparency in the logotype image (see Logo File Format, p. 4). ▫In the URL field, you can specify the link to an Internet resource to open on the logo and message title click. ▫In the Message title field, you can specify the title of the message, e.g. the company name. This text will be displayed in the message window title on the right of the logo. If you leave this field blank, information on the message will be displayed in the title of the message window. ▫On the right of the Logotype file field, click If the logotype is not set or the logotype size exceeds the allowable limits (see Logo File Format, p. 3), Dr.Web Agent logotype will be displayed in its place in the message window. •Set the Show link in the message flag, to include a hyperlinks to web resources into the message. To insert a link: 1.In the URL field, specify a link to an Internet resource. 2.In the Text field, specify the link name—a text displayed in the link place in the message. 3.In the Message text field, add the {link} marker in all places where you want the link to appear. In the resulting message, the link with the specified parameters will be shown instead of the marker. You may use unlimited number of the {link} markers in a text, all of them will have the same parameters from the URL and Text fields. •Set the Send to online stations only flag to send the message to online stations only. If the flag is set, sending to offline stations is not performed. If the flag is cleared, sending to offline stations is postponed till their connection. •Set the Show send status flag, to show notification with the message send status. 4.Click Send. A file with graphic image (logotype) inserted into a message should require the following: 1.File graphic format: BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF, SVG. 2.Logo file size may not exceed 512 KB. 3.Overall image size is 72x72 pixels. Images of other size will be scaled to the default size before send. 4.Bit depth is any (8—24 bit). 5.If the Use transparency flag is set when sending a message, the first pixel in the position (0,0) is declared transparent. All pixels of the same colour as the initial colour of this pixel become transparent, the window background is be displayed instead. If you use the Use transparency option for rectangular logotype, it is recommended to make a rectangular border to avoid erroneous transparency of the pixels of the image itself. Enabling the Use transparency option will be useful in case of a nonstandard (non-rectangular) form of the logotype to remove the undesirable background, which supplements the informative part of the image to a rectangular shape. For example, if the image shown in figure below is used as a logotype, the purple background will be removed (become transparent). Nonstandard form logotype
Message Send Example To send the message displayed in figure above, the following parameters were set for the link: Message text:
URL: http://drweb.com/ Text: here |
Send message
to load the logotype file from the local resource, and select the necessary object in the opened file system browser.
