Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Notices Criteria - Additional Conditions for Displaying a Notice

What is it?
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This mod adds new criteria that can be used to configure when a notice will be displayed or not. (These came from separate requests in the forums which I decided to release as one mod.)

1) Show notice only on one or more days of the week
2) Show notice for any style other than one selected style
3) Show notice only for specified threadids (in this case the notice will on display on the showthread and newthread pages).
4) Show notice if THIS_SCRIPT value is (or is not) in specified list of values
5) Show notice if user has been registered for more/less than a certain number of days
6) Show notice only during certain months
7) Show notice only when user is/is not browsing selected forums (this duplicates the functionality of the standard functions, but adds flexibility).

Installation:
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Just import the product XML file from the Product Manager. The new criteria will appear when adding or editing a notice in the Notices Manager.


Notes:
1) Should work on 3.X and 4.X versions.
2) Since notices aren't shown on the register.php page, adding "register" for the "THIS_SCRIPT value is" option will not work. If you want to show notices on the register page, you must edit the navbar template and remove the check for THIS_SCRIPT != 'register'.


History:
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1.2 (May 18, 2014)

• Added forum selection
• Added month selection
• Added "less than" option to days registered

1.1 (Oct 4, 2012)

• Added THIS_SCRIPT and Days Registered
• Changed title of mod
• Changed wording of "Day of Week" option

1.0 (Jun 14, 2012)

• Added threadid criteria

0.95 (Jan 15, 2012)

• Initial Release

[Simon Lloyd]

Most people don't really know the script name for what they are seeing on the screen which is why i thought a list would be good, i hear you on the custom script and agree that an either or situation should be employed either choose from the list or enter your script name.

[Simon Lloyd]

Did you manage to start on the THIS_SCRIPT thing?

[kh99]

Well, I could have that in there pretty quickly but I decided to work on that other thing we talked about via PM, to try to have them released at the same time (assuming I can get it to work). Then yesterday I had computer problems and didn't get anything done. Are you waiting for it?

[Simon Lloyd]

Not in particular, although for some notices it would be really great to pinpoint where they will be shown, right now im just using an ad location with condition to show to certain usergroup in a certain area.

What we discussed will truly make the notification system perfect!

[KGodel]

Hey kh99!

Just wondering if you could add in an option to this mod to check registration date, so like if user has been activate for X days/weeks/whatever. So I want a survey to automatically appear after a user has been registered for 2 weeks for feedback. Would that be too difficult?

[kh99]

I will see what I can do. And I also just noticed that Simon asked for something months ago and I never got it done. So I'll try to put that in as well.

[kh99]

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd

Kevin, could you possible add a criteria for "Is viewing script" so you can specifically show notices on forumhome, usercp....etc?

Originally Posted by KGodel

Just wondering if you could add in an option to this mod to check registration date, so like if user has been activate for X days/weeks/whatever. So I want a survey to automatically appear after a user has been registered for 2 weeks for feedback. Would that be too difficult?

I've updated to version 1.1 with the above addtions (sorry Simon, no drop-down menu for THIS_SCRIPT values ).

[Simon Lloyd]

Hey Kevin. thats good enough, i'll look at adding a dropdown of hardcoded common scripts (of course, like yourself it may never get donw as i have a ton of half finished mods - all with goo intentions though at least im not working two jobs any more so have a little more time!), if i do get round to it i'll mail it to you

[Simon Lloyd]

One thing Kevin, when i load your latest update (with overwrite) it kills the css on my site?

[kh99]

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd

One thing Kevin, when i load your latest update (with overwrite) it kills the css on my site?

Hmm...I don't see any problem when I use it here. I suppose if there was some kind of bug with the plugin that checks the criteria it could be causing an issue. Maybe you could check for a PHP error message?

So you didn't try to use any of the new features or anything, just installed the new one? Do you have any notices using any of the other features from this mod?