How do I relocate the Forum disabled warning?

[chrisbjax]

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When I disable the forums for maintenance, the Alert shows at the very top of the page. I would like to relocate the warning to below the navbar, however, I cannot seem to find a value for the board_inactive_warning template?

Could someone help show me how I can move this element.:erm:

Thank you all for your help!
Chris

[chrisbjax]

crickets? anyone? bueler? bueler??

[Zachery]

You know the only person who sees that is you right?
Everyone else sees a gaint closed message, nothing more.

[chrisbjax]

Well, since I never received a reply, I would say it doesn't make much of a difference..
Did I ask the question wrong? or put it in the wrong forum?

Originally Posted by Zachery

You know the only person who sees that is you right?
Everyone else sees a gaint closed message, nothing more.

[blind-eddie]

Enjoy the crickets.

[chrisbjax]

you know, I would have expected to have been trolled by a member, telling me how I screwed up, but not by support staff or a designer.. I am a little disappointed.
I thought I was concise in my explanation, I posted a picture of my issue, with an arrow, as outlined by by Paul's sticky. I tried to explain my objective.
I understand I probably shouldn't have bumped my thread, but Zachery, could come have come and said, "heh - this is a busy forum, be a little more patient", instead of the answer I received, which was a little rude, and condescending..

what rule did I break? other then being impatient, that has earned me this harsh response? if I was wrong, or violated a rule, please tell me where, so that I may correct myself, and I offer my sincere apology.

[BirdOPrey5]

I think there may be a failure to communicate here. Zachery was simply asking if you are aware only Admins see the message- regular users don't see that so it is a very unusual request for someone to ask how to move something the users don't see.

Also Designers/Coders/Contributors are not forum staff, they are regular users like you who have contributed styles, mods, or other content in the past. I cannot speculate on what blind-eddie meant.

As for your original question since this is such a low-level function it is controlled in the php files, not the templates.

[chrisbjax]

Hi Bird,
I would agree there was a misunderstanding. I didn't read his post like that, and thought he was referring to my post being done incorrectly or poorly, or that I had bumped it..

Things posted here are not always conveyed very well. I do apologize for the "pot stirring"

I am aware of it, and I do understand it may be unusual, however it does bother my fine sensibilities.
Would there be a way for my to simply adjust the float, so it just goes over the top, or can I move it down below the banner? What php file should I look at? Simply a nudge in the right direction would be sufficient. or is this something I really shouldn't modify?

It's somewhat a learning thing - I'm trying to teach myself some of the finer ascetic tweaking items related to Vb, and this seemed like a good start.. Something that other people don't really notice, but drive me mad, and I can tinker with

Thank you for your time and help!

[BirdOPrey5]

You can try adjusting the float in the board_inactive_warning template... Now that I think about it you may be able to move it if you add an "absolute" position to the <div> in that template... Styling issues aren't my strong point but you can google "absolute positioning css" for some info on it.

As for the php files I really don't know, I'd imagine it's probably in global... You should get a text editor like Notepad++ that lets you search whole directories for text. Look for the text:
$vbulletin->options['bbactive']

That would be near the code dealing with this.

[Zachery]

The board offline messages are directly injected into the header/footer, around line 540 of includes/class_bootstrap.php

PHP Code:

  if (!$vbulletin->options['bbactive'] AND
   ($vbulletin->userinfo['permissions']['adminpermissions'] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_adminpermissions['cancontrolpanel']))
  {
   // show the board disabled warning message so that admins don't leave the board turned off by accident
   $warning = vB_Template::create('board_inactive_warning')->render();
   $header = $warning . $header;
   $footer .= $warning;
  } 


You might be able to get tricky and change:

PHP Code:

 $header = $warning . $header; 


to

PHP Code:

  $navbar .= $warning;