Central notification bar for non coder users in SharePoint 2013 (or 2010)
We wanted a central place to notify people of any important news - planned outages, where the donuts are, etc. This marquee banner had to appear on every site and subsite using our template. I added a content editor webpart, pointing to a file in the SiteAssets of the root site. That worked and allowed me to add CSS, javascript, jquery, etc. in one location and all was right and good. I set up a marquee for those announcements, but since it was in my external file, i was a little uneasy when they decided that the night shift should be able to edit my marquee bar. The night shift usually can't be trusted to close the refrigerator door, let alone any HTML tags, so I needed to lock them down while preventing them from breaking the site as much as possible. I looked into SPServices - "GetListItems", but that seems to always be a local list. I use this to my advantage when working with "Announcements" and " Links " and that works well, but I couldn...