The new NATS4 News and Notifications Admin lets you send news items, such as updates, to all of your affiliates or notifications to specific affiliates. NATS also uses notifications to send you automatic notifications about any problems that may arise.
News
News items are received by all affiliates, and are displayed under the "News Items" tab. News items are displayed at the top of the Affiliate Overview page, and are labeled as "Announcements."
To create a News Item, go to the News & Notifications Admin, and click the "Add News Item" tab. Here, you will be able to choose when the news item/announcement is displayed by using a freeform time, which will be parsed by PHP's strtotime function. Once you have filled that out, you can enter your news item's subject and body. When finished, click "Create This News Item" to create your announcement.
Notifications
Notifications act like emails. You can send a notification to specific
affiliates or all affiliates, and affiliates can read the notification
and then delete it. NATS displays the number of new notifications at the
top of every affiliate page. Clicking on the number of new
notifications, or going to the Messages tab of
My Account, shows the
affiliate their list of received and sent notification.
To send a new notification, go to the News & Notifications Admin, click
the Send Notification tab, and enter your notification. In the Send To field
enter an affiliate's username or enter ALL to send the notification to
all affiliates. To bold a notification in the
affiliate's notification inbox, mark the Severe checkbox.
Automatic Notifications
NATS automatically sends notifications to administrators about some
problems (for example: failed postbacks). You can view your
notifications in the Messages tab of your My Account screen or in the
Notifications tab of the News & Notifications Admin.
See Also
- strtotime -- PHP's documentation on the function used to parse times in the News & Notifications Admin. Note: NATS's strtotime can take a special "NEVER" argument
