Forum Display Enhancements - Sorky - Customize Announcements

Purpose
This plugin dramatically improves the ways in which announcements can be displayed.

• Separates the announcements from the threads and puts them in their own table
• Allows the location of the announcement to be changed
• Makes it possible to have announcements show up in "Categories"
• Collapse the announcement table
• Show the announcement message content!
• Collapse the announcement message content
• Own formatting for the Announcement table heading, the announcement title and the announcement message
• Limit the number of announcements displayed
• plus more!

Installation
Import XML file (as product): AdminCP > Plugin System > Manage Products > [Add/Import Product]

Options
To set this plugin's options go to: AdminCP > vBulletin Options > Sorky18 - Customize Announcements

Versions
v1.0.0 - 24th of December, 2008 = Launch (click here)
v1.0.1 - 28th of January, 2009 = official release for 3.8.x (click here)
v1.0.2 - 29th of January, 2009 = Minor improvement (click here)
v1.1.0 - 13th of April, 2009 = Remember show/hide state (click here)
v1.1.1 - 23rd of May, 2009 = alt text for show/hide image + more (click here)
v1.1.2 - 3rd of June, 2009 = limiting the number of announcements fixed (click here)
v1.1.3 - 7th of September, 2009 = minor script bug removed (click here)

Settings & Demonstration Screenshots
See v1.0.0 post (click here)

If you like this Mod please click INSTALL.

[mark370]

Hi Sorky, is there any way for me to edit a template to change just the colour of the tital text of the announcment ?
Reason i ask within your mod i can change everything else except this and the dilema i have is on our site we use a dark & light skin and i cant get the background colour right for them both, as soon as i get the light skin looking ok [which is our main default skin] the tital text in the dark skin is same colour as background colour and carnt be seen.

Oh and we running (vBulletin 3.8.1)

Example-Dark Skin:




Example-Light Skin:

[Sorky]

Originally Posted by mark370

Hi Sorky, is there any way for me to edit a template to change just the colour of the tital text of the announcment ?

Check these options...

1. "Cell (td) Formatting for the Announcement title"... class="MyAnnouncementTitleStyle"
2. "Enter your CSS here"... .MyAnnouncementTitleStyle{...}

[mark370]

Originally Posted by Sorky

Check these options...

1. "Cell (td) Formatting for the Announcement title"... class="MyAnnouncementTitleStyle"
2. "Enter your CSS here"... .MyAnnouncementTitleStyle{...}

Thanks for your reply but i proberly didnt explain myself proper ?
Ive already played with those settings youve suggested in vb options but the trouble is i cant set the announcments tital colour on a skin by skin basis unless ime missing something ? [plz see below pic]



Sorry for being a nuisance

[Sorky]

Originally Posted by mark370

Sorry for being a nuisance

No probs... I'm no expert on "skins" - are they the same as "styles"?

You still use this...
"Cell (td) Formatting for the Announcement title"... class="MyAnnouncementTitleStyle"

But you put the CSS in the "Skin/Style", so that the CSS changes based on the "Skin/Style" ;-)

[mark370]

Thanks for your help so far, and yea "skins" / "styles" meen the same its just a differant way of pronouncing it and my spelling aint that good

[Blackheart_72]

Just what i need, thanks.

[aengus]

Sorry if I missed it, but is there a way to force announcements to display on index.php as well?

Thank you, enjoying this mod already.

[Sorky]

Originally Posted by aengus

Sorry if I missed it, but is there a way to force announcements to display on index.php as well?

It isn't there because there is no capability for this currently in vBulletin...

It is in my Wish List (Special announcement for Forum Home-page (med)) which contains things I may do if I get time (or if it gets a lot of requests and I can set aside the time)

[Sorky]

Change Log

1. Added the 'None' selection for greater clarity
2. The long awaited, often requested, cookie to remember the collapsed state
3. Other minor coding and commenting adjustments

Change 1
"None" is the same as using "Selected" with no forums in the following list
"All" is the same as using "UnSelected" with no forums in the following list.
"Selected" allows you to choose which forums the option applies to
"UnSelected" allows you to choose which forums the option DOES NOT apply to

Change 2
Six new options...

vBulletin Options / Sorky19 - Customize Announcements - V1.1.0 / Announcement Table formatting options...

Expanded by default for
Selected/UnSelected Forums (comma separated ForumID list)
If no cookie exists show as...

vBulletin Options / Sorky19 - Customize Announcements - V1.1.0 / Announcement formatting options...

Expanded by default for
Selected/UnSelected Forums (comma separated ForumID list)
If no cookie exists show as...

If the existing (Collapsed by default) option is "None"and the new (Expanded by default) option is "None", then the Expand/Collapse will remember the previous state using a cookie. If the cookie does not exist, you can choose the default.

[AteNa]

Thanks ....