Answers.Body: <p>I'm not aware of such a feature.</p>
  
  <p>A (somewhat drastic) workaround would be to remove "access CiviCRM" permission from your users during maintenance.</p>
  
  <p>You could probably customize the "access denied" message that WP gives, to be a bit more friendly.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Since the question asked is generic - I'll add that in Drupal - you would invoke the maintenance mode screen - on that you can display a customized message.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I thought I had seen, and used, this feature in the past, but perhaps it was a different CRM product I was testing.  How do I put a scrolling alert up to inform users of system maintenance, or new feature improvements, or a friendly "replace the used toilet paper rolls" message?  (Ok, if you do the last one, you may need to seek help, but you get the idea.) I can't seem to find it via menu diving or Google-Fu. </p>
  
  <p>(I'm using Wordpress, but I would think it would be a core feature.)</p>
  
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Comments.Text: No recollection of this feature.
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Comments.Text: Drat.  Guess I'll see if there is a WP plugin for such functionality then.  BTW, I get the feeling that the API framework already would support such a feature, but the feature hasn't been built yet.  Then again, I could have been reading too much into the API documentation that I quickly perused looking for this feature.
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Tags: <dashboard><user>
Title: Alerting Users of CiviCRM Maintenance
ThreadText: # Alerting Users of CiviCRM Maintenance
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-06-02)
  
  I thought I had seen, and used, this feature in the past, but perhaps it was a different CRM product I was testing. How do I put a scrolling alert up to inform users of system maintenance, or new feature improvements, or a friendly "replace the used toilet paper rolls" message? (Ok, if you do the last one, you may need to seek help, but you get the idea.) I can't seem to find it via menu diving or Google-Fu.
  
  (I'm using Wordpress, but I would think it would be a core feature.)
  
  **Tags:** dashboard, user
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: No recollection of this feature.  
  > **username_0**: Drat.  Guess I'll see if there is a WP plugin for such functionality then.  BTW, I get the feeling that the API framework already would support such a feature, but the feature hasn't been built yet.  Then again, I could have been reading too much into the API documentation that I quickly perused looking for this feature.  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2016-06-03. Score: 1 | Accepted answer
  
  I'm not aware of such a feature.
  
  A (somewhat drastic) workaround would be to remove "access CiviCRM" permission from your users during maintenance.
  
  You could probably customize the "access denied" message that WP gives, to be a bit more friendly.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2016-06-03. Score: 1
  
  Since the question asked is generic - I'll add that in Drupal - you would invoke the maintenance mode screen - on that you can display a customized message.
  
  
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