Forum Home Enhancements - New Notification Image

Now that we have notifications, I have modified my previous New PM hack to go along with the new setup. This will display when ever there is a new PM or Notification to grab the users attention.

In the navbar template find:

<if condition="$show['pmwarning']"><div><strong><phrase 1="$vbphrase[pmpercent_nav_compiled]">$vbphrase[your_pm_box_is_x_full]</phrase></strong></div></if>
</div>
</td>

Add this right under:

<if condition="$show['notifications']">
<td class="alt2" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap">
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/notification.jpg" alt="You have a new Notification" border="0"></a>
</td>
</if>

Upload the attached "notification.jpg" to your /images/misc directory

~Please click Install if you use this~

[goxy63]

One of my users has 2notifications (user profile msgs)

They are still there after some time....few hrs already

Any pointers ?

Thanks
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Issue resolved, In admin cp under Maintenance > Update Counters
I rebuilded some tables and stuff, and user dont have that problem anymore, not shure is this related or not...but now its ok

Any ideas what was problem ?

[cptrek]

I added the code and your default pic.

I'm not seeing any changes though. What could I have done wrong?

[Keesa]

Thank you so much for this. I upgraded our skin and our members went on a mutiny without their email dude.

Here is who we use.

[Toxist]

I was forced to un install this, 2 hours for what seems simple, yet the only thing that shows up is you have new mail where the jpg should be. I have a new style and don't know if that may cause the issue or not. I put the jpg as directed and a few other places as well and it will not show up. oh well, I am glad others got it to work though. Tks for the mod for those who can use it.

[masterweb]

I installed it without problems, thanks for this mod and thanks to PoetJA-1975 for the animated pics .

[reptiliciuos]

I am using this on 3.8, and it seems to work great, apart from I cant get it to show the icon if there is just a new private message?

Works great with noifications, even with the extra code to display a different icon when there is no notifications, which is what it does with ne PMs.

Have I messed it up or missed something??

[reptiliciuos]

got it sorted, i had a different mod installed that was effecting things.

Got this all working great now, nice easy mod

thanks

[redrabbit12]

Thanks, installed.

[samiro]

can someone make this for vb4 ????

[ericgtr]

I think someone already has, you may want to search around for it. I didn't recreate it for 4.0 because it's so easy to modify the stylevar to stick out like a sore thumb when there is a new notification.

You can easily do this by going to your stylevars and under "Navbar" look for "Navbar Background Notification" and change the color to something different. I changed mine to red and now anytime there is a new notification it will automatically change.