Hi,

I also managed to get it to work in my navbar template, the set up I have is follows.

Custom template called cvr4_search profile, this is called from withIn the navbar template using the raw code, I then have a hook which calls this template and it shOws just fine.

Inside the cvr4_searchprofile I need to place the notification code to show new notifications, it's here where it's not working. So notifications need to be working inside a custom template which is called from within the navbar template.

Does that make sense?

Thanks for your testing, it's very mug appreciated.

OK, maybe I don't understand, but in the test I did I put {vb:raw notifications_menubits} in the custom template, and in the screen grab I posted you can see that it says "2 Unread Private Messages", which is what's in notifications_menubits.

Ok, I replicated your method and indeed it works - Let me review what i did originally and how this differs from what you did, i'm a little confused now cos it doesnt appear to be any different from how i set it up in the 3rd place, /scratcheschin.

Anyways, its working now and i can take lessons learnt from this and hopefully progress :)
Thank you very much for your help!