## [How to Set Up Announcement Banners in Jira (Rich Text, Scheduling & Targeting)](/blog/set-up-announcement-banners-jira.md)

July 23, 2026 ·

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6 min read

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Who should read this

* **Jira admins** who need to broadcast maintenance windows, outages, or policy changes
* **IT/ops teams** that want dismissible vs. persistent banner control
* **Anyone** frustrated by Jira's plain-text native banner limitations

What you'll learn

1. How to create a Jira announcement banner with rich text and emojis
2. Choosing dismissible vs. persistent banners (and when each fits)
3. Managing a library of announcements for quick reuse
4. How this compares to Jira's built-in banner and to Confluence banners

The scenario every Jira admin hits: there's a maintenance window Saturday night, a security policy change, or an ongoing incident — and you need every person who opens Jira to see it immediately. Jira has a built-in announcement banner, but it's plain-text only, lives in a buried admin setting, and gives you one banner at a time with no library, no scheduling, and no way to let users dismiss it.

[**Modern Announcement Banner for Jira**](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/194301976/modern-announcement-banner-for-jira) fixes this: rich-text banners with emojis and custom colors, a dismissible option, a saved library of announcements you can switch between with one click, and instant enable/disable without deleting. This guide walks through setting it up.

**Tags:**

* [jira](/blog/tags/jira.md)
* [announcement-banner](/blog/tags/announcement-banner.md)
* [notification](/blog/tags/notification.md)
* [how-to](/blog/tags/how-to.md)
* [admin](/blog/tags/admin.md)

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