How to display pm notifications in a custom template?

[Hilary]

Hi,

I've registered a custom template to include inside the header template with

{vb:raw mytemplate}

. It works... the

<vb:if condition="$show['member']">

condition inside mytemplate works, too. But

<vb:if condition="$notifications_total">

doesn't.

So if I put this code in mytemplate -

<vb:if condition="$notifications_total"><div>there are notifications</div>
<vb:else /><div>no notifications here</div>
</vb:if>

I always see 'no notifications here'.

The exact same code in the header template works as expected.

Does anyone know a solution for this?