What type of announcement would include this?

[Dr.CustUmz]

I am working on my skin, and in template threadbit_announcementbit I found this block of code I cant seem to trigger.

<if condition="$show['forumtitle']"><a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$announcement[forumid]">$announcement[forumtitle]</a> </if>

I have removed the if condition around it, and placed it in a comment

<!-- <a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$announcement[forumid]">$announcement[forumtitle]</a> -->

But no matter how I set my announcement, I am not pulling any data in this snippet of code. Is there another announcement section I am missing? Other than announcement manager in the admincp.

<!-- <a href="forumdisplay.php?f="></a> -->

This is vB3 btw.

[snakes1100]

global announcements differ from forum announcements

[Dr.CustUmz]

Originally Posted by snakes1100

global announcements differ from forum announcements

Yes, but neither are returning results on those variables... I have tried multiple variations of notifications, I have tried stacking and unstacking announcements. Yet nothing is setting those varibles...

[In Omnibus]

Originally Posted by Dr.CustUmz

Yes, but neither are returning results on those variables... I have tried multiple variations of notifications, I have tried stacking and unstacking announcements. Yet nothing is setting those varibles...

I'd guess that something in the syntax has changed but I don't have a 3.8x installation to compare with. Is this code from 3.8.11 or an earlier version?

[Dr.CustUmz]

...your on to something, my master template dump was from an earlier version. Although I am running 3.8.11, i will see if this snippet is still in the template manager.

**edit** just confirmed this snippet is in 3.8.11. no change to the template at all.

keep in mind I am looking at this source on forumdisplay (i am unaware anywhere else that uses threadbit_announcement)

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I have tried only having 1 announcement, 1 announcement and a global. only 2 forum announcements, only 2 global announcements, all stacked announcements, and all un stacked, and a few other ways. nothing seems to give these variables values. at this point its just bugging the hell out of me.

is there maybe somewhere else this template is rendered? I searched all templates, and see $announcebits is called in the announcements and search templates also, but I cant figure out how to search for announcements and I defiantly dont see this template being used in the announcement template

[lange]

Originally Posted by Dr.CustUmz

Is there another announcement section I am missing? Other than announcement manager in the admincp.

You also have access to the announcement_edit template.

[Dr.CustUmz]

but threadbit_announcement is not displayed in the edit page. Im just trying to figure out what php pages I can see threadbit_announcment, and how to trigger it to show on said pages.

forumdisplay.php shows it yet doesnt return any values for the snippet. I see $announcebits (which I believe is the variable to call threadbit_announcement template) in search, and announcement. Yet I cant figure out how to get that template to actually appear on either of those pages.

[lange]

Thanks, I understand your problem now.

I am not a coder but I can give you my opinion as a user: the announcement manager as it is now meets my needs perfectly. I ask no more. I can customize the design, give access rights by forum, by user group, etc. As you can see on the following screenshot (a responsive theme), I am using another of your products. :up:

[Dr.CustUmz]

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

According to the PHP code, it should trigger on announcement.php where the forumid is greater than -1. I.E. if the announcement is within a specific forum. If it isn't triggering then there is a bug somewhere. However, since vBulletin 3.X is end of life and no longer in development, the bug will never be resolved.

Got my answer from the big man This seems to be useless code, that was either missed for removal, or never implemented. (as far as we can tell)