XF 1.1 Notices

Welcome to a new series of Have You Seen videos, demonstrating some of the new features and improvements to come in XenForo 1.1.

First on the list: Notices.

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[Paul B]

The code has already been posted here http://xenforo.com/community/threads/notices.18390/page-12#post-276946 and linked back to in subsequent posts.

The help manual is there to explain features, not to teach HTML and CSS.

Notices are no different to any other features which support HTML.

There is a thread here which deals with that: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/links-to-html5-css3.3782/

 

[Digital Doctor]

I am talking about "Notices" in the context of ...
When and how to employ them.
What people have tried and what were the implications.
Did someone have a "Black Friday" notice and how did it drive sales that day ?
How did they target the users with the messages ...
etc.
etc.

I'm not talking just .html

Notices are very powerful. With great power comes great responsibility. Poorly deployed Notices will annoy people. Admins aren't perfect and can easily learn about others mistakes and successes.

 

[Paul B]

/gives up

 

[erich37]

I have a question, please:

how do I put a Notice into a "Category" ONLY, not showing this Notice within the "Forums" of that specific "Category" ?

Many thanks!

 

[Paul B]

Select the category on the Page Criteria tab from the node list at the top.

 

[erich37]

Select the category on the Page Criteria tab from the node list at the top.

yeah, this is what I did.
However, the Notice also shows within the Forums which are listed in this Category.
Is this a bug?

 

[Robert Prost]

I use Flexile Dark Blue and I only get "User Bar Text String" instead of the notice

 

[RobParker]

A couple of notice criteria questions.

With Xenporta installed as my homepage, how would I get the notice to just display on there?

How would I get a notice to display just on the main forum index page rather than on the forum/thread pages?

 

[RobParker]

Also when entering links in the notice html area, is there a shortcut for URLs internal to our site (some sort of xenlink syntax?) or do I just enter the full URL?

 

[Paul B]

How can I find out which template to edit?
Using your browser, view the page source and look for a line of code near the top of the page which begins
<div id="content" class="; the class is the name of the template. So for the main forum page, the line of code is:
<div id="content" class="forum_list">, which makes the template forum_list.

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/frequently-asked-questions.5183/#post-181112

See here for xen:link - http://xenforo.com/community/threads/xen-link-guide.15615/

 

[RobParker]

So we just specify the template in the page criteria section? Will it accept multiple values and how do we specify them?

Edit: Putting in multiple comma separated values for "Content Template is:" doesn't seem to work.

 

[RobParker]

See here for xen:link - http://xenforo.com/community/threads/xen-link-guide.15615/

Kier states "You can only use {xen:link ...} within templates"

Does that mean it can't be used in the notice html?

 

[erich37]

yeah, this is what I did.
However, the Notice also shows within the Forums which are listed in this Category.
Is this a bug?

it works O.K. when specifying:

Page Criteria > Content Template is:
category_view

 

[Saeed]

it works O.K. when specifying:

Page Criteria > Content Template is:
category_view

Are you sure? That seems to disable the notice altogether for me...

 

[Paul B]

That will only work if you have categories set as pages.

 

[principia]

Suggestion:
It would be nice to expand the noticefunction to the sidebar

 

[RobParker]

Will it accept multiple values and how do we specify them?

Not sure if this got missed but can you specify more than 1 content template? I'd assume so but I'm not sure how to delimit them.

 

[twollert]

How do I put a notice ONLY on the forumhome page?

 

[Fuhrmann]

How do I put a notice ONLY on the forumhome page?

Are you talking about the forum list?

 

[DSF]

I think for this site: