Advanced Message Types •

The Quick Announcement Bar app is capable of displaying messages with customized effects such as stackable messages, rotating bars, sliding/fading messages, and marquee messages to help make your announcements more noticeable.

To learn more about these individual effects, please read more below or jump to each feature here:

• Stackable Messages
• Rotating Bars
• Sliding/Fading Messages
• Marquee Messages

Stackable Messages

The app can only insert one bar per page. If you are looking to have 2 bars display together, a different workflow is needed.

In this case, you can use our Stackable Messages feature to simulate multiple bars inside one QAB bar.

Like so:

1. Start by creating a new bar. You'll be shown tiles to choose a message type. Choose Stacked messages:

   

   Alternatively, you may click on Change Type, and a pop-up will appear:

2. There will be message fields that you can configure to your liking. You can also click on Add a message to add more stacks.

3. Click on Save.

And that's all there is to it. Repeat for other bars if needed.

Rotating Bars

We have a video guide about how to set up Rotating Bars here:

If you prefer a step-by-step guide, please read below:

1. First, create a bar and customize it to your liking. If you have not set up a bar, you can read this guide, which will walk you through creating a bar within a few minutes.

   
   

2. Once you're done creating a bar, click on Edit.

   

   
   

3. For a bar to rotate to the next one, you would have to change the value of the Hide bar after X seconds option to a number greater than zero. In this example, if you want to rotate the bars every 3 seconds, you'll have to input 3 in this field.

   

   
   

4. Once done adding the value, click on Save.

   
   

5. The next step is creating another bar that you will be adding to the rotation. To keep a consistent look with the first bar, you can simply duplicate the first one and do some minor changes. 

   

   
   

6. If you are creating a new bar from scratch, ensure that you set it to disappear after the number of seconds you would like the bar to display for before rotating to the next bar:

   

   
   
7. Once done, click Save. Now these two bars should rotate. In this example, they'll rotate every 3 seconds.

By default, the order in which the bars rotate is determined by which one was created first. To modify the order, click on Sort Rotation Order then click on the Up/Down icons depending on how you want to order the bars. Be sure to save after setting the new order.

Follow these steps to create a bar that has messages slide in, pauses, then slides out.

1. To begin, click on Change type found above the message field. A pop-up will then appear. Click on Sliding Messages:

   

   

   
   

2. In the following prompt, you will be able to enter the messages you wish to display (up to 5) as well as configure the Time per message, sliding direction, etc.

   

3. Click Save.

Marquee Messages Premium Plan Only

You can create a "Marquee" style scrolling message that displays a repeating message on a loop:

1. To begin, click on Change type found above the message field. A pop-up will then appear. Click on Marquee Messages:

2. In the following prompt, you will be able to enter the scrolling message you wish to display. In the same area you can also modify the scrolling speed and the scrolling direction.

3. Click Save. You should see the message scrolling through the bar now.

If you need any assistance or have questions about this feature, feel free to reach us at help@hextom.com.