You can manually place the Community Portal into maintenance mode and customise the messages that it generates when the system is in shutdown or maintenance mode.

You can enable maintenance mode by either:

Setting the MaintenanceModeOverride configuration setting to True (see below).
Selecting the Enable Maintenance Mode field. See Configuring general settings.
Scheduling a shutdown period. See Maintaining system messages in the Synergetic System maintenance manual.

What you can do

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Determine whether maintenance mode related messages are displayed on the Introduction tab of the Community Portal.	DisplayOnIntroPage configuration setting
Determine whether users are immediately logged out of the Community Portal when maintenance mode is enabled.	LogoutUserMode configuration setting
Place the Community Portal into maintenance mode.	MaintenanceModeOverride configuration setting
Customise a message to be displayed when the Community Portal is undergoing maintenance.	OfflineMessage configuration setting
Customise a message informing users about future shutdown periods.	OnlineMessage configuration setting
Customise whether shutdown times are displayed in the Community Portal.	ShowOfflineDates configuration setting
Maintain the access permissions of users during system maintenance.	UseMaintMessages configuration setting

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