Administrative and Maintenance Tools - SSGTI - Hide AdminCP vB News table if all news are dismissed

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Note: This product has been requested by Keyser S?ze as a custom work HERE. It has been completed & delivered few months ago. Since all of my custom work is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0, I publish it now for the public use, I hope this product will be useful for all of you.


Name: Hide AdminCP vB News table if all news are dismissed - Version: 3.8.100

Description:

• This modification will hide the "vBulletin news table" in the AdminCP if all news are dismissed.
• To clarify the goal of this modification I can say: By default when you dismiss all vBulletin news in your AdminCP, there will be still an empty table showing just the phrase "Show All News" ONLY (See the attached image). Some webmasters hope if this table be hidden as soon as there no new vBulletin News. That's exactly what this modification do.
• 1st Screen shot: The vB News Table before dismissing news.
• 2nd Screen shot: The vB News Table after dismissing news.
• This modification will hide that table shown in the second Screen shot.
• Of course the "vB News Table" will appear again if there is any new items to display.

Compatible with: All 3.6.x/3.7.x/3.8.x vBulletin versions.


Installation Procedure:

1. Do the following file edit:
   Open the file "clientscript/vbulletin_cphome_scripts.js" & search in it for the following code:
   

   			// table is there we've just hidden it
   			var t = fetch_object('news_table');
   
   			if (news_items.length)

   Replace it with the following code:
   

   			// table is there we've just hidden it
   			var t = fetch_object('news_table');
   
   			var g;
   			var news_id_extra = '';
   			var visible_messages_extra = false;
   			for (g = 0; g < news_items.length; g++)
   			{
   				news_id_extra = news_items[g].getElementsByTagName('guid')[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
   
   				if (PHP.in_array(news_id_extra, dismissed_news) == -1)
   				{
   					visible_messages_extra = true;
   				}
   			}
   
   			if (news_items.length && visible_messages_extra)

   ** Save the modified file "clientscript/vbulletin_cphome_scripts.js" & re-upload it (allow over-write). **
   
   
2. Done .

Control:

• Nothing, just install it & it will work instantly .
• Please be sure to clear your browsers cache to reload the new modified JS file.

License:

• Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0

Help with:

• Suggestions to develop this product.
• Contributing any updates, upgrades and/or any new features.
• Translations to benefit more users (translation credits goes to their owners).
• Spreading this product. Yes, you're free to re-distribute this product as it is.

Known Isues:

• Nothing till now.

History:

• v3.8.100 19/01/2009 10:00 AM GMT: First initial public release.

Screen Shots:

• Available down there.

Technical Notes:

• New Files: 0
• New Plugins: 0
• New Phrases: 0
• New Templates: 0
• Template changes: 0
• Code Changes: 1
• New vBulletin Settings: 0
• New Usergroup Permissions: 0
• New Moderator Permissions: 0
• New Administrator Permissions: 0
• New Forum Options: 0
• New DB Tables: 0
• DB Alterations: 0
• New Cron Jops: 0
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• Installation Level: V.Easy
• Installation Time: 3~5 seconds
  

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Donation?:

• No, sorry. I appreciate your kindness. But if you need to help/support, then you can ask me for custom work. I'm ready for any custom work .

[NGUYENDUCTRUONG]

Thanks for share

[Omranic]

Originally Posted by NGUYENDUCTRUONG

Thanks for share

You're welcome .

[OcR Envy]

I'd really like to hide the "There is a newer version of vBulletin available to download" block completely. Think you can give me a file edit for that?

[Omranic]

Originally Posted by OcR Envy

I'd really like to hide the "There is a newer version of vBulletin available to download" block completely. Think you can give me a file edit for that?

To do this, follow the following instructions (for vBulletin 3.8.x):
Open "admincp/index.php" & search inside for the following code:

PHP Code:

echo '<div id="admin_news"' . (empty($news_rows) ? ' style="display: none;"' : '') . '>'; 

Put above it directly "multiple line commenting tag":

PHP Code:

/* 

And close that tag under the following code directly:

PHP Code:

echo '</div>'; // end of <div id="admin_news"> 

PHP Code:

*/ 

That's all. You will not see the "vBulletin News" anymore in your admincp .

[OcR Envy]

Fantastic Solid

Thanks much.