14. What users see on endpoints
Dialogs, prompts, markings and notifications on Windows, macOS and in the web add-ins.
This chapter describes, platform by platform, what a user sees once Ada is deployed: the dialogs, prompts, notifications and on-screen markings that the policy settings in earlier chapters produce. Use it to write your user communication and to recognise user reports at the help desk. Text in quotes is the exact English wording; Turkish is shown when the platform language is Turkish (section 14.6).
| Surface | Windows | macOS | Web add-in (OWA, new Outlook, Office on the web, Office for Mac) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Label dialog in Office | COM ribbon button + modal dialog | Task pane (web add-in) | Task pane |
| Prompt on save when unlabelled | Office save dialog (COM) | File-agent picker after save | — |
| Print / copy blocking | Word, Excel, Outlook (PowerPoint print cannot be blocked) | — | — |
| Send checks | Classic Outlook (COM) | Outlook for Mac (web add-in) | OWA / new Outlook |
| Tray / menu bar | Tray icon (AdaNotify) | Menu bar icon (AdaMenuBar) | — |
| Notifications | Ada’s own toasts | Ada’s own pop-ups | Pane messages |
| Right-click classify | Explorer Classify with ADA | Finder Quick Action Classify with ADA | — |
| Screen watermark | Yes | Yes | — |
| Screen-capture protection | Yes (Office windows) | No | — |
In this topic
- 14.1 Windows
Each Office app with its module enabled in policy shows a large ADA Data Classification button. If the module is off, there is no button.
- 14.2 macOS
A small Ada icon sits in the menu bar. There is no Dock icon and no Quit item; launchd restarts the helper if it stops.
- 14.3 Web add-in task
pane (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
In Word, Excel and PowerPoint (on the web, on Mac, or on Windows via the catalog), the Home tab shows a group ADA with the button Data Classification . The pane contains, top to bottom:
- 14.4 Outlook
web add-in (OWA, new Outlook, Outlook for Mac)
In compose, read and meeting-organizer windows, the user clicks ADA Data Classification to open the pane and choose a label. Applying a label: - writes the x-ada-classification headers - adds the subject marker -…
- 14.6 Languages
There is no in-product language switch. Logs, diagnostics and the console are always English.