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caracena
Tue 18th Aug '09, 10:13am
Hi everyone,

I have a skinned theme and above the forums, there's an "announcement" place that is 1 line tall. It's just a place to put a 1 line notice or something of interest.

The current text my forum is displaying there is hard codded (a welcome messagge). Is there any way for me to replace that line with a "Notices" code so I can display different notices for different type of visitors? I've tried $vbphrase[notice_html] but nothing appeared.

Thanks!

Jake Bunce
Tue 18th Aug '09, 12:37pm
The cleanest solution is probably to edit this template and remove the welcome message completely:

Admin CP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> « » -> Forum Home Templates -> FORUMHOME

Then you can just create notices for all of your groups:

Admin CP -> Notices

caracena
Tue 18th Aug '09, 12:41pm
The cleanest solution is probably to edit this template and remove the welcome message completely:

Admin CP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> « » -> Forum Home Templates -> FORUMHOME

Then you can just create notices for all of your groups:

Admin CP -> Notices
Thanks for your quick answer. Now, to make it work, after I remove the hard coded welcome message, won't I get a blank space because the system will not know where to put the notices? What variable whould I put in there?

Thanks again,

Jake Bunce
Tue 18th Aug '09, 12:43pm
Notices already have a place at the bottom of the navbar. You can just remove the entire table cell for that default welcome message.