Simple global announcement
 

Inspired by the Welcome headers hack I wanted to add a simple global announcement that I could turn on and off via the admin cp and change the announcement from acp.

The Dynamic Announcements hack is a bit more than I require so I wrote my own simple global announcement hack.

To install import the xml file as a product in the Plugin Manager.

Modify template FORUMHOME add

$simple_global_announcement

where You want the announcement to be placed. I have placed it after $navbar and before <!-- main --> like this


To enable the announcement goto vBulletin options and open settings for "Global annoucement". Here You can enable/disable the announcement and enter the text to display.


Change history.

1.1.0 Made the announcement box collapsable


Future.
I am hoping a new template hook will be added in FORUMHOME just after $navbar so future template edits won't be required to install this.

EDIT: Having some problems, it's not showing up. I did the template modification and turned it online via the admincp and included a message. Any ideas?

Looks pretty cool, however will this interfere with my Geek Banner System?

Awesome! Nice and simple, yet effective!

Hmm, strange. You loaded the xml file via plugin manager, edited the template FORUMHOME? Can You post a few lines from that template around where You made the change?

If You goto the settings are the global announcement then still enabled and the text still there?


I don't know that banner system so I don't know if it will interfere.

also check your template if you have more then one beside the default you have to make changes to each template in nav bar... :ermm:

simple :) will be installing.

Great hack, but does it interfere if you have the Dynamic Announcement installed aswell?

I don't know, but I don't think so. I have not installed Dynamic Announcement installed.

How can i make it colabsable? :)

so far i have both installed and no problem to report :rolleyes:

sound, I'll try when i get home

got it working, but doesnt seem to display on vbadvanced at all. I have put it in the correct templates for both, hmmmm

I don't know vbadvanced so can't help there.

How can I control visibility by user group? This approach does not appear to work:Collapsibility would also be awesome.

Take a look at this thread:

Linky

:)

Tommy; I have a question.

Your original code contains:
But with this use, the announcement lay-out gots f*cked up when I use a table with a picture and text.
So I edited it to:
and that works PERFECT!

So can you explain why do you call the username and bbtitle in those phrases?

So that those phrases can be used inside the actual announcement text if required. But either works.

Do you mean when I would use the {1} and {2} 'things"?

I'm sorry for the questions but I'm just curious :D.

Does anybody know if this works on vB Drupal or how to make it work on it??

Yep and thats ok :-)

Thank you!

Tommy; listen!

I love your hack. But I have a question/request.

I want to make a copy of this hack on my forums, cause I want to use it two times. But I want the original version not modified. So it can be changed from the admin panel.

The second one I want to have it be able to be changed from the MODCPpanel.

Is this possible and how can I do it?

Will this work site-wide? Instead of just inside the forumhome?

Sorry about the late response. I haven't been around for a while.

I guess You could do that if You want to. You would need to create a new xml file with a different name. Then You would need to change all references, names etc so the to plugins do not use the same. Not really easy to explain.


Alien, yeah I guess You could use it anywhere You like since the variable is global. I have not tried but see no reason why it shouldn't work.

Is this hack working with 3.6.1?

I think it will but have not tested it as I have not had a lot of spare time.

3.6 compatible?

I will see if I can get it tested on 3.6.5 soon.

Thank YOU!

Sorry for the long wait. I have just upgraded my test forum to 3.6.6 and tested simple global annoncement at the same time and it works with no changes.

(I have asked a moderator to move the thread to 3.6.x forum so I can update the thread with the correct version number).

Moved.

Thanks Paul.

Now also tested to work with 3.6.7.

Thank you!

Question : I installed this, it's working fine, however when I try to use bbcode to make a url link that says (for example) click here it wont create a link and the bbcode shows up,. What am I doing wrong?

use an anchor tag, and it works fine for a link.

<A href="URL here">Text msg to show</A>

awesome thanks!

hmmm when i used that tag the box where it should show up is extremely narrow and about a millimeter tall :(

***edited nevermind i was just being an airhead lol i got it...

Thanks for the link I finnally got around to do this so in version 1.1.0 it is now possible to collapse the announcement.

thanks for this