Announcements Portal

If you find Annoucements Portal useful and want to support its continued development, you can make donations via: - PayPal: info@barrydegraaff.tk - Bank transfer: IBAN NL55ABNA0623226413 ; BIC ABNANL2A

This portal shows a list of announcements and RSS feeds in Zimbra as the first thing people see after login. Also People can add new announcements and comment on them. Spread the word in your organization!

Features

Customizable colors
Configurable feeds
Deploy per cos or per user, what you want

Install prerequisites

Zimbra 8.7 and above

Support for 8.6 at own risk. Place a mariadb-java-client-1.1.8.jar in Jetty Lib folder: /opt/zimbra/jetty-distribution-9.1.5.v20140505/common/lib/mariadb-java-client-1.1.8.jar (remove this file when upgrading to 8.7)

Installing

Use the automated installer:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Zimbra-Community/announcements/master/announcement-installer.sh -O /tmp/announcement-installer.sh
chmod +rx /tmp/announcement-installer.sh
/tmp/announcement-installer.sh

zmprov mc default zimbraFeaturePortalEnabled TRUE
zmprov mc default zimbraPortalName tk_barrydegraaff_announcements

Optional, configure your feeds and allow Zimbra to fetch them:

zmprov mc default +zimbraProxyAllowedDomains zimbra.com
zmprov mc default +zimbraProxyAllowedDomains nextcloud.com

Set configurable options here: config_template.xml

Known issues

The feed reader reads RSS feeds, not ATOM feeds.

Helpful Links

https://github.com/Zimbra-Community/announcements

Download View on GitHub

Rating	( 1 ratings )
Downloads	581
Latest Version	0.0.1
Categories	Business , Mail , Organization
Compatibility	ZCS 8.7.x , ZCS 8.8.x
License	GNU GPL v2
Created	on 5/4/17
Updated	on 8/6/18

Reviews

Amazing !

By: fs.schmidt on on 9/24/17 for version 0.0.1

Hello Barry, congrats ! Amazing zimlet as usual.

Regards from Brazil.