Do the tickers stack?

MikeR

If I send out multiple tickers to a single collection, or multiple collections that a computer is a member of, why do they not see all the tickers?  They only seem to be seeing the most recent. it seems to me that they should scroll in order of priority or when posted. or if they click on 1, then the next should show. I also would like the ticker not to close when someone clicks on it. Maybe there should be a dismiss button?

F_Christiansen

Hi Mike,

In the current version you can only send out a single announcement, so if you create a new announcement and send that our before the previous has been displayed at your clients, it will be overwritten by the new announcement.
The reason is that we save the announcement data to a WMI class definition that ConfigMgr pushes and sending a new announcement will overwrite the existing definition.

However, we are working on a new version of the Ticker that supports multiple announcements, recurrence, better language support, longer text, Outlook alike popup notification popup, etc.

Currently I don't know when that will be released, but the best for your scenario is to wait for that version.

Best regards
Flemming Appelon Christiansen

F_Christiansen

Hi Mike,

In the current version you can only send out a single announcement, so if you create a new announcement and send that our before the previous has been displayed at your clients, it will be overwritten by the new announcement.
The reason is that we save the announcement data to a WMI class definition that ConfigMgr pushes and sending a new announcement will overwrite the existing definition.

However, we are working on a new version of the Ticker that supports multiple announcements, recurrence, better language support, longer text, Outlook alike popup notification popup, etc.

Currently I don't know when that will be released, but the best for your scenario is to wait for that version.

Best regards
Flemming Appelon Christiansen

MikeR

thank you. We will hold off on mass deployment then until the next release. I am hoping that will also include the ticket not closing when someone clicks on it.

Daniel_Hoenig

MikeR said:

thank you. We will hold off on mass deployment then until the next release. I am hoping that will also include the ticket not closing when someone clicks on it.

Hi Mike, please look in the feed https://community.cireson.com/discussion/702/config-manager-ticker-app-feature-request-prevent-end-user-from-closing-ticker-app (It would be nice if the ticker client couldn't be closed by the end user):

wally_mead said:

A common request, which you can already do via the Registry :-) Try this to see if it does what you need. Go to: HKLM\Software\Cireson\ConfigMgr\Ticker App, DisableExit = 1 (dword value)

F_Christiansen

The ticker/banner will close when a user clicks on it - or if it expires.
What the registry value does is that it grey out the Exit menu item if you right-click the Ticker icon in the system tray area so the user cannot close the Ticker App.

Best regards
Flemming Appelon Christiansen