tried that, didn't get anything now... no popup.

This conditional means the user shouldn't be a member of usergroup 9 OR 12. This applies to both primary usergroup AND additional usergroups. So are you trying with a test account which does not belong to 9 and 12 at all?

I want to show the announcement to everyone, except these user groups: 5,6,7,22

any help?

[[(!is_member_of($bbuserinfo,5 ,6 ,7, 22))]]
I want to show the announcement to everyone, except these user groups: 5,6,7,22
[[/(!is_member_of($bbuserinfo,5 ,6 ,7, 22))]]

Hi Logician,
Thanks for your prompt reply, I tried the the above conditional and nothing shows up? Thanks

ok, I checked and you both are right. Apparently the check works just for the primary usergroup. So you can use that one if you want to check primary usergroup of the user:

[[(in_array($bbuserinfo[usergroupid], array(5,6,7,22)))]]
show if visitor's primary usergroup is 5 or 6 or 7 or 22
[[/(in_array($bbuserinfo[usergroupid], array(5,6,7,22)))]]

OR

[[(!in_array($bbuserinfo[usergroupid], array(5,6,7,22)))]]
show if visitor's primary usergroup is NOT 5 or 6 or 7 or 22
[[/(!in_array($bbuserinfo[usergroupid], array(5,6,7,22)))]]

I have no suggestion if you want to check secondary usergroup, sorry about it.

I've upgraded from 3.09 to 3.51 and I would like to know how to remove this hack from the vbulleting options?