template variable help needed

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I'm a real begginer so please bear with me, i changed the navbar template around a bit and saved it as a new navbar template, "navbar2". I'm using vbadvanced and on the portal page i want it to use the navbar2 template for the navbar instead of the "navbar" template. I went into the vb advanced template and saw that it was including the navbar template by using this statement:

$navbar

i figured than i could just change that statement to: $navbar2 and it would use my new navbar2 template, however, it does not work and it doesnt show a navbar at all on the portal vbadvanced page.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

update: i just tried the steps in this tutorial:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=119933
however it still does not work.

In the vbadvanced template i have the statement $navbar2

I made the 2 plugins as stated in the tutorial but it still does not show a navbar in the vbadvanced script....