Adding sidebar

[Spenser]

As there is no global announcement system in xenForo that I was able to find I want to add an additional sidebar that contains a link to the announcement.
Is there an easy way to add a sidebar?

 

[Paul B]

How do I apply a sidebar to other views or templates?
<xen:sidebar>
Sidebar content
</xen:sidebar>

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

I suspect however you actually want to add a block to the existing sidebar.
In which case use this:

How do I include a template?
<xen:include template="name_of_template" />

A notice system is coming in 1.1.

 

[Spenser]

Ah, ok.

Thank you for that. You are right, I want to add a new block.

And how do I set the new sidebar to a specific position? Say, between "User Information" and "Members Online"?

 

[ragtek]

Sidebar => the whole container.
The content i'm calling Sidebar Block.

To create an Sidebar Block and to place it where ever you want, you could use my framework
This method doesn't request any template editing => no problems on xenforo upgrades
How-To: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/ragtek-add-ons-helper-framework.15163/#post-201497

 

[RobParker]

How do I include a template?
<xen:include template="name_of_template" />

A notice system is coming in 1.1.

Is there a template that contains all of the sidebar blocks? I was expecting a "sidebar" template to exist but it doesn't seem to.

 

[RobParker]

Is it just this in pagecontainer?

                <aside>
                    <div class="sidebar">
                        <xen:hook name="page_container_sidebar">
                        <xen:include template="ad_sidebar_top" />
                        <xen:if is="!{$noVisitorPanel}"><xen:include template="sidebar_visitor_panel" /></xen:if>
                        {xen:raw $sidebar}
                        <xen:include template="ad_sidebar_bottom" />
                        </xen:hook>
                    </div>
                </aside>

 

[Paul B]

If you want it on all pages, yes.

If just on the main forum home page then you can use the forum_list template.