hide a specific block from the sidebar

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Originally Posted by fxdigi-cash

Hi,

I want to know how to hide a certain block from the sidebar because I'm trying to test hiding blocks from a specific style using this:

<vb:if condition="THIS_SCRIPT =='index' AND $bbuserinfo['styleid']==13">

I'm wondering what to do in order to hide a block. I tired to create a new block_html template and then use it as a block in the block adding manager through html/php, but that didn't work...

any idea how to do that??

I think you were on the right track.

So create a new template for "block_html", lets call it "block_html_new" and then insert your conditional. I placed optional conditionals in the two most likely positions, for reference, in the markup below. (I know you tried this, but I think you missed a step.)


Contents of newly created template "block_html_new"

<!-- HTML/Template Wrapper Conditional - START -->
<vb:if condition="THIS_SCRIPT =='index' AND $bbuserinfo['styleid']==3">

<li>
    <div class="block smaller">
        <div class="blocksubhead">
            <a class="collapse" id="collapse_block_html_{vb:raw blockinfo.blockid}" href="{vb:raw relpath}#top"><img alt="" src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_button}/collapse_40b.png" id="collapseimg_html_{vb:raw blockinfo.blockid}"/></a>
            <span class="blocktitle">{vb:raw blockinfo.title}</span>
        </div>
        <div class="widget_content blockbody floatcontainer">
        <div id="block_html_{vb:raw blockinfo.blockid}" class="blockrow">


<!-- Block content only conditional - START -->
   <vb:if condition="THIS_SCRIPT =='index' AND $bbuserinfo['styleid']==13">
      Styleid: {vb:raw bbuserinfo['styleid']}
   </vb:if>
<!-- Block content only conditional - END -->


            {vb:raw content}  <!-- In this example, the variable will return "<dummy></dummy>"  -->
        </div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="underblock"></div>
</li>
</vb:if>
<!-- HTML/Template Wrapper Conditional - END -->

IMPORTANT !!!
-------------------
1.) Make sure you insert text or some dummy tag in the "content" box in the "Block Manager" --> "Edit Box" dialogue. If the text-box is empty the block will not be processed. [NOTE: vb-conditionals will not work in this text-box -- the HTML dialog box on Block Manager --> Edit.

  <dummy></dummy>
or
  <!-- comment -->  
or
  <div>actual content</div>

2.) When testing, set the cache time to '0', but set it back to a higher number for production.