Announcements new Table

[Mr Pink]

This is a simple code change for announcements.


Preview:

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/8785/announcementsfl5.jpg

Modification:

Go into the FORUMDISPLAY template.
(AdminCp -> Styles & Templates -> Edit Templates -> FORUMDISPLAY)

Find:


$announcebits
Delete it.

Find:


$header
$navbar
Below add:



<!-- Announcements -->
<if condition="$announcebits">
<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" class="tborder" width="50%">
<tr>
<td class="tcat"><a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('icons_panel')">
<img id="collapseimg_icons_panel" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_tcat$vbcollapse[collapseimg_icons_panel].gif" alt="" border="0" />
</a><b><center>Announcements</center></b></td>
<tbody id="collapseobj_icons_panel" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_icons_panel]">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#F5F5FF"><div><span style="color: black;">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
$announcebits
</table>
</a></span></div>
</a></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br />
</if>
<!-- /Announcements -->
<br />
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I have used some deprecated tags, in this modification. When I will have free time I will release it with the correct code.
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Code Updated & Optimized
Thanks goes to Sidewindr (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=23148) [View Post (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1203716&postcount=4)]

[bashy]

Cheers m8 looks a lot nicer and more noticeable, well done!!

[Tanabe]

Awsome :) Thanks ^^

[Sidewindr]

I made the following changes to the code so the Announcements table would not show up if there were no announcements. Also fixed up some missing table data and row end tags.


<!-- Announcements -->
<if condition="$announcebits">
<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" class="tborder" width="50%">
<tr>
<td class="tcat"><a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('icons_panel')">
<img id="collapseimg_icons_panel" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_tcat$vbcollapse[collapseimg_icons_panel].gif" alt="" border="0" />
</a><b><center>Announcements</center></b></td>
<tbody id="collapseobj_icons_panel" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_icons_panel]">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#F5F5FF"><div><span style="color: black;">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center" id="threadslist">
$announcebits
</table>
</a></span></div>
</a></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br />
</if>
<!-- /Announcements -->

[dbirosel]

Nice, i will add this soon to my boards. It does make it more noticeable.

[Mr Pink]

Thanks, Sidewindr. :)
Code updated, but still not complete.

[Mr Pink]

Code optimized. :)

[bashy]

do you know of a way to show more than 1 announcement in the box?
Also is there a way to have the announcements to show in the forumhome?

[Mr Pink]

do you know of a way to show more than 1 announcement in the box?

What you mean exactly with this? Here, https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=61837&d=1173895817, for example, it show two announcements.
Maybe you mean that you have this: AdminCp -> vBOptions -> Forum Display Options (forumdisplay) -> Group Announcements.. set to 'Yes'. If so, set it to 'No'. :)


Also is there a way to have the announcements to show in the forumhome?

For now I'm not able to do that, sorry.

[Dark_Sirius]

Very nice. Installed. :D

[Naxon]

Let me correct you...
Not the FORUMHOME template It's the FORUMDISPLAY tamplate...

Installed :)

[Mr Pink]

Let me correct you...
Not the FORUMHOME template It's the FORUMDISPLAY tamplate...

Installed :)


Ops, sorry! :p
Thanks!

[GruntHalo]

Installed, thank you!

[jketron]

How do you get the announcements to be displayed on the first page before entering the forums, it is there once you click on a forum link

[Mr Pink]

Also is there a way to have the announcements to show in the forumhome?

For now I'm not able to do that, sorry.



How do you get the announcements to be displayed on the first page before entering the forums, it is there once you click on a forum link

Zorry!

[odie3]

Will these should up on the Forum Index to?

[Triky]

Will these should up on the Forum Index to?

No.

[Dark_Sirius]

I found a small bug, at least on my forum, that causes this modification to interfere with the feature that allows you to edit thread titles from the forum display page (double clicking the thread title).

I found that in the line below the highlighted code was the problem. Removing that id tag fixed this issue and the table still functioned correctly.


<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center" id="threadslist">

[Triky]

Oh, thank you, Dark-Sirius. I will update the first post. :)

[MP1]

I deleted that from the template:

$announcebits

And I want to put it back, but I have no idea where to, can someone tell me where I can put it back?

[Triky]

MP1, search for this (in FORUMDISPLAY):

<if condition="$show['search_engine']">
<if condition="$show['threadicons']">

Above it. :)

[JadedSouls]

-installed-

[Defkalion]

Nice hack, installed. Thanks :)

[BigDog56]

Very nice! Thank you very much!