Major Additions - 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 !

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

[bigsbydapicka]

Works Great. How can the font size be changed?

[wii]

That will be added in the next version.

Originally Posted by bigsbydapicka

Works Great. How can the font size be changed?

[wii]

I just edited the template in mine to have the smallfont. I can show you where, if you like.

[bigsbydapicka]

That would really help!

[Marky]

Global Announcements Version 1.3 Beta 1 Released!
New features include:
* Bugs Fixes
* Title and Announcement Size Option Added
* Collapsability + Switch Added
* "More..." Edit option
* Usergroup Settings
* Box style uses style CSS
* Alignment options easier to use (Dropdown boxes)

Check it out and tell me what you think ^^

[bigsbydapicka]

Installed in 3.6.0 but Sizes do not change when changed in the ACP?? :surprised: Here's the end portion of my navbar. Is something amiss? I had 1.2 installed. I removed it and installed 1.3.

Brian

style="display:none">
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
<tr>
<td class="thead" nowrap="nowrap">$vbphrase[go_to_page]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="vbmenu_option" title="nohilite">
<form action="$vboptions[forumhome].php" method="get" onsubmit="return this.gotopage()" id="pagenav_form">
<input type="text" class="bginput" id="pagenav_itxt" style="font-size:11px" size="4" />
<input type="button" class="button" id="pagenav_ibtn" value="$vbphrase[go]" />
</form>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>

<!-- / PAGENAV POPUP -->
$globalannounce
</if>

[zafrir]

Can I creat announcement with variables? I'm trying to creat a generic announcement that will appear in all subforums but will include the subforum name in it, putting it as global or parent forum.

thanks

[zafrir]

Sorry,

Installed, everything looks OK,
al menu options set,
but don't get any announcements:cross-eyed:

[Marky]

Originally Posted by zafrir

Sorry,

Installed, everything looks OK,
al menu options set,
but don't get any announcements:cross-eyed:

Did you add $globalannounce to the navbar template?

Have you set the usergroup permissions?

Do you have the announcement switched to on?

Installed in 3.6.0 but Sizes do not change when changed in the ACP?? Here's the end portion of my navbar. Is something amiss? I had 1.2 installed. I removed it and installed 1.3.

Brian

style="display:none">
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
<tr>
<td class="thead" nowrap="nowrap">$vbphrase[go_to_page]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="vbmenu_option" title="nohilite">
<form action="$vboptions[forumhome].php" method="get" onsubmit="return this.gotopage()" id="pagenav_form">
<input type="text" class="bginput" id="pagenav_itxt" style="font-size:11px" size="4" />
<input type="button" class="button" id="pagenav_ibtn" value="$vbphrase[go]" />
</form>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>

<!-- / PAGENAV POPUP -->
$globalannounce
</if>

Not sure why that is...
Try putting the $globalannounce right at the bottom of the template.
I won't have time to look into any problems tonight, but tommorow, I will install the thing right from the start and test everything to see if it's all in order and I'll post an update if there is a problem.

[bigsbydapicka]

Everything works fine and everything configured as needs to be but the text size has no affect. I'll try and move to the very bottom.