Miscellaneous Hacks - Animated Notifications

Overview:

This product began as the result of a request to have a blinking new PM image like we have here at vBorg. However, I have expanded on that to include all of the vBulletin notification types, and some that result from third party products. You can also define your own custom notifications to work with this product (the .GIF icon needs to be put in the "images/misc" folder). You can define the order in which the alert icons will appear from left to right. The alert icons I have included are animated Skype smilies, and you can define the maximum height for these icons. The icons will appear to the left of the other toplinks element, but within the element itself. You can set whether the notifications being displayed with an icon are removed from the notifications menu, or you can decide to hide the notifications menu altogether (only recommended if you are sure you have all possible notifications displayed with an icon).

Compatibility:

Tested and working on VB 4.2.x and may work on all 4.x versions of vBulletin.

Backup/Warning:

This product does not alter the structure of your database, however it is always good practice to make regular backups and you should make a backup before installing ANY new mod.

As always, products are USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. I will provide support and do my best to help but no absolute guarantee is offered.

To Install:

1. Download and extract the attached .zip file.
2. Upload the contents of the "upload" folder to your forum's root directory.
3. Follow AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product.
4. Click on "Choose File" and browse to the product .xml file that was packaged in the .zip file.
5. Click "Import."
6. You MUST enable the product in the settings before it will function.
7. Configure the remaining settings to your liking. Each setting has a detailed explanation of its use.

Support for this product can be found here:

• MHB - Animated Notifications
• TAZ - Animated Notifications

[Stratis]

Originally Posted by MarkFL

Your "header" template has to have the HTML element:

<li class="welcomelink">...</li>

in it, or the addition of the icons can't take place.

This is present
<li class="welcomelink">...</li>


I revert my skin to default and mod works fine. Problem is that I cannot have it revert. But I do not know what is missing. I have many changes so I cannot find.


Is there some thing else from code that must be there? mod to work.

[MarkFL]

As long as that list element is there, it should work.

[blah100]

Another fun modification. Seems like I'm gonna install all your mods at some point.

Has anyone been able to find the Alert Key for DBTech's User Tagging (quotes & mentions)? Only thing I'm missing.

[MarkFL]

Originally Posted by blah100

Another fun modification. Seems like I'm gonna install all your mods at some point.

Has anyone been able to find the Alert Key for DBTech's User Tagging (quotes & mentions)? Only thing I'm missing.

I will try to look into that soon, and update the product to support the user tagging product.

[blah100]

Thanks a lot Mark, will install it as soon as it becomes available.

[MarkFL]

Originally Posted by blah100

Thanks a lot Mark, will install it as soon as it becomes available.

I have updated the product, and it can be found here:

MarkFL: Animated Notifications v1.1

[blah100]

Originally Posted by MarkFL

I have updated the product, and it can be found here:

MarkFL: Animated Notifications v1.1

Worked perfect, thank you so much

[Guinevere]

Looks great! Unfortunately images aren't showing up, the imagepath is fine but just getting a blank square in the toplinks bar. Any idea why? TIA

[MarkFL]

Originally Posted by Guinevere

Looks great! Unfortunately images aren't showing up, the imagepath is fine but just getting a blank square in the toplinks bar. Any idea why? TIA

Did you upload the images to your server?

[Guinevere]

Yep, into images/misc and when viewing the page source it is leading to the image fine.

edit: Here's a screenshot;