What type of announcement would include this?
 

I am working on my skin, and in template threadbit_announcementbit I found this block of code I cant seem to trigger.
I have removed the if condition around it, and placed it in a comment
But no matter how I set my announcement, I am not pulling any data in this snippet of code. Is there another announcement section I am missing? Other than announcement manager in the admincp.
This is vB3 btw.

global announcements differ from forum announcements

Yes, but neither are returning results on those variables... I have tried multiple variations of notifications, I have tried stacking and unstacking announcements. Yet nothing is setting those varibles...

I'd guess that something in the syntax has changed but I don't have a 3.8x installation to compare with. Is this code from 3.8.11 or an earlier version?

...your on to something, my master template dump was from an earlier version. Although I am running 3.8.11, i will see if this snippet is still in the template manager.

**edit** just confirmed this snippet is in 3.8.11. no change to the template at all.

keep in mind I am looking at this source on forumdisplay (i am unaware anywhere else that uses threadbit_announcement)


I have tried only having 1 announcement, 1 announcement and a global. only 2 forum announcements, only 2 global announcements, all stacked announcements, and all un stacked, and a few other ways. nothing seems to give these variables values. at this point its just bugging the hell out of me.

is there maybe somewhere else this template is rendered? I searched all templates, and see $announcebits is called in the announcements and search templates also, but I cant figure out how to search for announcements and I defiantly dont see this template being used in the announcement template

You also have access to the announcement_edit template.

but threadbit_announcement is not displayed in the edit page. Im just trying to figure out what php pages I can see threadbit_announcment, and how to trigger it to show on said pages.

forumdisplay.php shows it yet doesnt return any values for the snippet. I see $announcebits (which I believe is the variable to call threadbit_announcement template) in search, and announcement. Yet I cant figure out how to get that template to actually appear on either of those pages.

Thanks, I understand your problem now.

I am not a coder but I can give you my opinion as a user: the announcement manager as it is now meets my needs perfectly. I ask no more. I can customize the design, give access rights by forum, by user group, etc. As you can see on the following screenshot (a responsive theme), I am using another of your products. :up:

Got my answer from the big man ;) This seems to be useless code, that was either missed for removal, or never implemented. (as far as we can tell)