10.11 Message center
A simple and practical messaging system allows users to post messages addressed to everybody on the main page.
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Users can add new messages by clicking on the
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Messages can be formatted as on any word processor. Messages can automatically be removed with a time limit expressed in days. A small icon can be selected to give some extra visibility to the message title on the messages’ list.
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Finally, messages can have links to LabCollector records. This can be useful to link to additional information or data commented in the message.
For example, you may want to link to a registration form for a meeting reminder message.
To use this, users must first memorize records (using the memorization icon
on search results) to link before creating a new message.
You may associate an icon to the message to help users understand the intent.
You can also use
icon to browse messages.