Global Announcements
 

Global Announcements
+ Current Version: 1.3 Beta 1
+ Created By: Marky

What is "Global Announcements"?
Global Announcements is a modification that adds an announcement to most pages on your vBulletin board!
It contains many different features to enhance your forum announcement!

Current Features
* Announcement Status - Turn your announcement On and Off.
* Announcement Title and Text Settings - Edit the title and text of your announcement, as well as the size, colour AND alignment of both!
* Usergroup Settings - Edit which usergroups see the announcement.
* "More..." Link Settings - Turn a "More..." link on and off, as well as editing what it says and where it links too.
* Collapsability + Switch - Turn collapsability of your announcement on and off.
* Border Thickness - Edit the thickness of your announcement border.
* HTML Ready - Ability to use HTML in your announcement

Beta Information

Because Global Announcements is in Beta 1 (vB 3.6), you must remember to use it at your own risk. However, this version is supported!

Support

Support on this modification, will be given at vBDiscussion.com AND in this thread!
You must remember to post any problems or bugs that occur whilst using this modification to help improve it!
If you have any suggestions, be sure to post them in this thread also!

Next Version?
The next version will be version 1.3 Beta 2. The current additional feature list is:

* BBCode Parsing (This includes Smilies) - The ability to use BBCode and smilies in your announcement!

Special Thanks

I'd like to give a Special Thanks to Zero Tolerance (Scot). He's been great in helping me with production and a great help with all things vB related! So Thanks :D!

Other Information

Be sure to click 'Install' if you have installed this modification!

Do you like this modification? If so, be sure to vote it this month's Modification of the Month!

This modification was created by Marky. It is for use on your forum and should only be available on vBulletin.org and vBDiscussion.com.
You may not edit, copy or re-distribute this modification in any way without Mark Spiers' permission.

Thanks,

Marky

Last Updated: 25th August 06

Very good! Thanks

Work very well !

I shall install this on my other forums. Thank you, Marky! :)

thx, nice hack

Thank you this will become very handy.

Installed - works fine on 3.6

Had to delete an </if> at the bottom of the template, and edit the text size to small, but no problems.

Yes, just one error in the template with </if>.

Edit template globalannounce

Find

replace with:

Thank you Marky

Thanks pauloo for making the edit a little easier for everyone.

Sorry about the extra if. I do tend to go if mad :p
Text size will be added into the next version.
And of course the extra If will be destroyed ;)

Thanks