[SAS Studio] Enable custom message display on SAS Logon Manager page

[ronan]

Hello,

A lot a usable space is lost on the SAS Logon Manager web page. I find it useful to reuse part of it 

in order to display Important/Urgent messages to the incoming users :

for example, maintenance scheduled with outage at < day, time> , system operation scheduled at etc.

I know it's not officially permitted but I have already modified the Logon HTML code , inside the deployed hierarchy of SAS Web App Server to allow this. It worked fine altough the content update process was risky and required editing manually a file on the midtier machine ...

Wouldn't it be nice to allow this kind of feature to SAS 9.4 admins, using an update channel well-devised and somewhat easy to use (for instance, a Stored Process with text fields and some little typographical enrichments to be selected optionally like Red colored text, bold font etc.) ? This would replicate the Message Of The Day (motd) broadcasting feature known for a long time on Unix systems or SAS-wise the (little-known) NEWS system option.

To illustrate my point, I've taken the liberty to take a caption of such a Logon modified page (courtesy of SAS Institute ; ) 

 

See picture above.

Thanks for considering this idea !

Ronan

PS I've tagged this idea with SAS Studio even though it's broader actually

[BrianPerkinson]

SAS Logon Manager provides for custom sign-in, sign-out, and time-out messages as described SAS® 9.4 Intelligence Platform: Middle-Tier Administration Guide here:

Customizing Sign-in, Sign-out, and Time-out Messages

Does the custom sign-in message meet the need you are describing? Or are you asking for something else?

[andreas_lds]

@BrianPerkinson: That feature is useful for displaying static content, but not for announcing server maintenance, because of "Step 3: Rebuild and Redeploy SAS Web Infrastructure Platform". I am not an jsp-expert, but could a message be loaded by the jsp from a textfile placed outside the web-application?

[ronan]

@BrianPerkinson Thank you, sorry for following up so late.

Not exactly, as @andreas_lds noticed, the sign-in/sign-out message are missing the target, so to speak. I need a quick & easy way to publish (edit, modify, remove) short announcements on the signon page. A sort of specific portlet, editable only by admins (using a SAS EV Manager plug-in , for instance). 

[BrianPerkinson]

Thanks @andreas_lds and @ronan for the clarifications. I'll pass your suggestions along to our product management and R&D teams. 

[JuanS_OCS]

Hello @BrianPerkinson, @ronan, @andreas_lds,

I join to this request. For 9.4 and for SAS Viya Logons.

I think the customized message is not enough, as per several customers are requesting me. But possibility for placing a full html, customized, that can iframe the bits that SAS engine requires (the form).