Some of the expanded formatting requests mentioned in the comments here are now being tracked in this ticket: JRACLOUD-83140 – More formatting options for admin announcement banner e.g. text colour and font

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I would say the implementation is a good start and went quick, thanks a ton for that! 

Now comparing Confluence and JIRA, they do look quite different. 

Jira is way higher and is always centered. Confluence is narrower and bound to the right side. 

Maybe for identical look & feel for the users, an alignment would make sense here

Overall, we are happy and it comes just in time for our Live migration next month

line spacing (especially if there is a numbered/bulleted list) and the vertical scrollbar need some tweaking

@Anusha Rutnam I see it on our instance. It seems rather limited: no different fonts, sizes, colours for the text etc.

It is not visible in our instance

@anusha - I am not and getting impatient

Hello,

This is a great add for us, I am testing it and it is working.
just one thought : it is not possible to change the color of the text ?

Thanks by advance,

Regards,

Jonathan Brunerie

Are any of the watchers still not seeing the rich editor on <your site name>.atlassian.net/jira/settings/system/ui/announcement-banner ?

Still not seeing this in our instance

Hello Team,

As the deployed changes are reflecting but not able to copy paste the simple text, although the links are getting pasted.

If possible, please look into it.

Regards,

Tanu Ranjan Bharadwaj

@Mike Alexander, link is working fine for us Chrome-Edge.

The capability has been rolled out to our instance, but I'm unable to insert a hyperlink. The buttons is there, but when I select some text and click the button, nothing happens other than the Hyperlink button greys out. Is anyone else experiencing this? (Safari 17.3.1 on a Mac running macOS 14.3.1.)

Also, I'm disappointed that it's not possible to change the colour of text (only the banner background colour). Is that planned for the future?

Hi @arajah - thanks for adding this capability. Can you confirm if the new announcement banner features will be added to the "Update announcement banner configuration" API that apps can use? I did a quick test and the new `bgColor` and `content` with ADF text formatting is not supported via that API.

Thanks!

Hi 315be88e4f9b  13f496d00ae6 82c00579102d 121b87ce6f8e  We have 100% rolled out the new feature in production, it would take some time to reflect through.  Have a play around and let me know if you still need help. Keen to hear your feedback too . Thx! 

Kia ora Arajah,

Can this be added to our sandbox instance for testing please: https://education-nz-sandbox-837.atlassian.net/

could you pelase enable it also in our test environment?

https://arvato-scs-sandbox-898.atlassian.net/

Thanks a lot!

36ed44d082e5  We have enabled the feature for your test instance. Pls try and let us know if you need help.

Hello @arajah how I can test it? our test instance is https://mraddon.atlassian.net

Thanks!

Hello All, 
     The upgrades to announcement banner with added formatting options such as bold, italic, and underlined rich text, bulleted and numbered lists, links, emojis, and background colors will be rollout to a small set of users starting today and will be made available to all users on 21st Feb (Wednesday). Thanks for your patience. 

As someone doing last minute migration from the Jira server product to the Atlassian cloud I can't believe that the announcement banner in the soon to be defunct server product is more advanced than it is here.  I've been able to use HTML to format the announcement banner in the server product for many, many years - I am thinking it is over a decade.  I understand not wanting to allow HTML and CSS on the page because then a user (albeit an admin) can inject nefarious code.  But seriously I am adding a comment in the Jira cloud and I can bold, italicize, underline, change colors, etc.  I can even

Incomprehensible that you have a more sophisticated banner in Confluence since ages and the devs are not able to copy this feature ever to Jira...why two separate development lines???

YES! It's 'In Progress'!

As the new year 2024 is in front of us, I was thinking to use announcement banner to greet our users, but unfortunately the banner display is so simple with #42526e color (is so called Fiord color, don't know why).

The new year is suppose to be fun, cheerful etc, etc... If we can have a banner with fully customized text formatting, including the background, color gradation, and if possible simple animation (using CSS), our next Christmas (2024) and new year (2025) will be more interesting and motivated for users seeing the fun greetings banner when they open the Jira on the first workday of new year.

it will be better if we can custom it like forge app

@arajah listing services that will be affected in a maintenance activity for example

Hi e54ec0b883c7 
   Following up on your request to support multiple lines of text in the banner - could you pls share the scenarios\usecases where this could be useful? Thanks!

Hi esther.strom  
    Was referring to the financial quarters. In short, the feature is targeted  for release by March'24. Hope this helps.

@arajah - thank you for the update, but can you clarify? You say you're targeting Q3 of 2024, but then say end of March. Q3 is July - September in standard years; that's a 4-6 month difference from March. Which is the target date?

Hi All, 
  Thanks for your patience and all the valuable feedback on this ticket.
  I am the Product Manager in Jira Platform team owning the announcement banner feature. We are prioritising this request for FY24 with a target release of Q3 ( by end of Mar 2024).  I will share updates on this ticket as we make progress.  Meanwhile, pls continue to vote and add your comments\asks to the ticket.

Thanks!

I would like to add to the comments and vote to enable this. Plain text is not very helpful in the enterprise.  We need to be able to direct users with links, and other basic features.  Consider adding some of the features in confluence like /layout or /table and links (bold/italic) Color is important to notify users of what is being communicated in that announcement.  A great ++++if it works the same when using the API https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-announcement-banner/#api-rest-api-3-announcementbanner-put

Our team are greatly interested in this change. It appears to have been "in the works" since the banner was first added to Cloud. Customisable banners have been part of Jira Server for a long time. We are migrating over to the Cloud and the lack of formatting makes communication and user interaction difficult - particularly when sharing links! This is a step backward when "upgrading" to Cloud

Hello

We need it

Hi, when this feature be available? Since Confluence announcement banner works with links, not sure why this is taking so much time...

+1
It would be very useful to have some formating options and the ability to add links for the announce banner.

I just noticed the Atlassian Support site's banner with a hyperlink shows. We'd like our site with the same function that the banner could support a hyperlink.

Our user used to consider the URL link in text on the banner is a system error...It is really not user-friendly. Hope to see the improvement badly.

Backing up Joshua, the function seems to be disabled now. Only the default background and text color are available. Do you plan to bring the functionality back or build in the formatting options?

The HTML/CSS/JS functionality of the Jira Server banners provided a flexible means of communicating with our userbase during our server to cloud migration. We were able to animate and even embed JavaScript within the banner to globally communicate the remaining time until events and this ability proved indispensable when we were forced to adjust our migration timeline on very short notice.

Now we have static white text on a dark background. Is Atlassian now disallowing this flexibility for security reasons?

Banner is not eye catching enough, the ability to change colour would be really useful. Also a scrolling banner would be really helpful

+1

+1

yes, this would be incredibly helpful

+1 This feature will be very useful

Just being able to add links would be so helpful for communications.  
Would like to be able to link out to new features, enhancements and deprecations that Atlassian announces, rather than having to write and send boring emails. Such a time saver for our admins, and better communications coming directly from Atlassian. 

Agree. And also/or this hint: allow StatusPage link in the banner, or some slick integration to show our customers/employees where they can find and track the status!

Well yes, please. At least basic markup if not full HTML.

We need this feature as well

yes formatting would be super useful, the sooner the better agreed! 

@zc - no, service desk agents can only change the banner that can be seen in the portal. 

Thank you @Richard.Donnell , wanted to check if this can be granted to an agent in a Service Project without granting them Admin rights.

where can we configure who has access to edit the announcement banner?

Admins can edit it under the System' section of Jira Settings. So anyone in your default Admin group with Product Admin rights. 

where can we configure who has access to edit the announcement banner?

What is the status update on this issue that has been around for almost 1.5 years?

Need links!!

This will help Super admins a lot to give users a funky update on the banner