Hi,
I am wondering what is the best way to display messages to guest FME web app users? Similar to how the broadcast messages functionality works, but for users without a login.
For background, my team has published several FME Flow workspace apps which are used by colleagues across our organisation. The users access the web apps without logging into FME Flow, so we don’t always know who all the active users are or their contact details.
I am looking for the best way to display temporary information to these users within the apps themselves. For example, if downtime to our database is planned which will impact the FME app, how to display a message to the user.
The best way I can think is using FME REST API to bulk update app descriptions with a message using PUT requests; and then repeat with a delete request to remove it later. However the formatting of the app descriptions is pretty limited for making a message stand out, and could be tricky to delete the temporary message without also removing the actual app description/instructions.
My other thought was generating the message as an image file to give it some colour, and posting that into the app banner or logo sections, which we do not use for anything else.
Does anybody have any suggestions for a better method than this?
Cheers