ACP Announcement Centre

[lefty74]

I think I discovered a bug in v1.2.1

Installing the mod went smoothly, until I set an announcement. I then got the following error:

However, in my configuration I set "Show Site Announcement to:" Everyone and the groups list had nothing selected by default.

The workaround was to select a group even though it was not applicable.

- Dick

i have never used postgres, so yes, could be a bug.

Hello, Lefty...
Until last week I had the old version (1.0.3a) installed on my forum, so decided to upgrade. I gave a notice to my admins that they do not need to enter the ACP anymore to update the announcements on our board - they can now do it via their MCP.
But after using it for a while they told me that they still prefer to do it via ACP because it has the preview and they can easily see what they have written before they post it. I thought that it makes perfect sense, since the preview mode is indeed very useful.
So I have a feature request for a future release:
Could you please add a preview option of the announcement in the MCP, too?

no, i wont be doing that. the whole idea of this mod was to have it in the acp (hence the title). i only added this after a lot of requests but i won't add anything else to the mcp, sorry.

Just installed ACP Announcement Centre 1.2.0,
All went smooth, no errors, the ACP Announcement Centre 1.2.0 GPI is under .MODS Tab in ACP.

PROBLEM IT DOESN'T SHOW ANYTHING ON MAIN PAGE.

i HAVE REVIEWED EVERYTHING BUT AM SERIOUSLY TIRED. So errors are possible.

Update: I just installed this in a clean new install of 3.0.5, no other mods no hacks.
I can't even get the .Mod to show like i did with my install above. These installs are on two different hosts.
The 2nd that doesn't even show .MOD, is with a subsilver2 style. I am using that one since it is the base for Getaway-Green my preferred style. I don't get why there are several edits necessary for prosilver but no edits required for subsilver2, asside from copying the subsilver2 files provided in the mod pack.

** Sorry for the bad links, I was half asleep with I created this post**

all i can say right now, doublecheck your edits, there are edits to be done for subsilver2 and dont forget to run the install/index.php.

[ChriZathens]

...
Could you please add a preview option of the announcement in the MCP, too?

no, i wont be doing that. the whole idea of this mod was to have it in the acp (hence the title). i only added this after a lot of requests but i won't add anything else to the mcp, sorry.

Oh, I see... Nevermind.
Thanks anyway!

[Sir Glen]

Note; before I get started here, I have used many different versions of this mod as they've come out, and I love it. It's always worked pretty much flawlessly, and any problems I HAVE had I've tracked down to my own mistakes.

There is something I need, but it's not a bug fix, it's a feature, hopefully one that can be implimented with a minor modification, if not just tell me so and I'll let it go. Basically, I would like to be able to make the "guests" announcements show up for anyone who is a member of the "guests" user group. Note that "guest" wouldn't be their default group, I would use it soley as a means of making that set of announcements show up . The reason is that I run a very, very large board with more than 50 user groups and I would like to have two different set of announcements that could effectively be shown to two different segments of users via specialized groups. One is easy; I create a "members_announcements" hidden group and set it so that anyone who is a member of that group sees the site announcements. I tried to add everybody else to the "guests" group that is pre-installed in the board but those people still don't see the "guests" announcements. They don't see the site announcements either, fortunately, they just don't see any announcements.

If there is a simple solution for this just let me know!

Also, what would be really REALLY awesome is to have two sets of "groups" based site announcements that are separate. That way the "guests" announcements could still be for people that are truly guests, and I could create separate site announcements for different groups of registered members.

Regardless, thanks for all your hard work!

[quahappy]

I did originally make the following post within Milky Way topic here (includes attachements) but thought it would be better suited here (I can't delete that post either now...):

I've installed Milky Way style and ACP Announcement. Does anyone know which style class calls the blue bar that shows where forum titles are? The bar where announcement title is, shows up as grey. I've had a fiddle but can't get it to show up blue! Would make more of an impact over the present grey colour.

Many thanks in advance.

[quahappy]

announcement_centre.html for Milky Way style in full:

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<!-- IF ANNOUNCEMENT_SHOW_BIRTHDAYS_ALWAYS and not ANNOUNCEMENT_ENABLE and ANNOUNCEMENT_BIRTHDAYS-->
	<div style="margin: 10px 25px 0 25px;">
		<table width="100%" class="tablebg" cellspacing="1" >
	<tr>
	<div><div class="tbl-h-l"><div class="tbl-h-r"><div class="tbl-h-c"><div class="tbl-title"><h4>
	                            <!-- IF ANNOUNCEMENT_TITLE --> {ANNOUNCEMENT_TITLE} <!-- ELSE --> {L_ANNOUNCEMENT_TITLE}<!-- ENDIF -->
                                </h4></div></div></div></div></div>
	</tr>		
				<table class="tablebg" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
				<td class="row1" align="center">
				{ANNOUNCEMENT_BIRTHDAY_IMG}<br />
					<center>
						<table>
							<tr align="center">
								<!-- IF ANNOUNCEMENT_BIRTHDAY_AVATAR -->
									<!-- BEGIN bdannounce -->
									<td>
										<table>
											<tr align="center">
												<td>{bdannounce.ANNOUNCEMENT_AVATAR}</td>
											</tr>
											<tr align="center" valign="bottom">
												<td><b>{bdannounce.ANNOUNCEMENT_USERNAME}</b></td>
											</tr>
										</table>
									</td>
									<!-- END bdannounce -->
								<!-- ELSE -->
									<!-- BEGIN bdannounce -->
									<td><b>{bdannounce.ANNOUNCEMENT_USERNAME}</b></td>
									<!-- END bdannounce -->
								<!-- ENDIF -->
							</tr>
						</table>
					</center>
				</td>
			</tr>
	<tr><td class="cat-bottom">&nbsp;</td></tr>
		</table>
	<div class="tbl-f-l"><div class="tbl-f-r"><div class="tbl-f-c">&nbsp;</div></div></div></div>
	</div>
	
	<!-- ENDIF -->

<!-- IF ANNOUNCEMENT_ENABLE-->
	<!-- IF ANNOUNCEMENT_ENABLE_GUESTS and not S_USER_LOGGED_IN and not ANNOUNCEMENT_SHOW_EVERYONE and not ANNOUNCEMENT_SHOW or ANNOUNCEMENT_SHOW-->
	<div style="margin: 10px 25px 0 25px;">
		<table width="100%" class="tablebg" cellspacing="1" >
	<tr>
	<div><div class="tbl-h-l"><div class="tbl-h-r"><div class="tbl-h-c"><div class="tbl-title"><h4>
												<!-- IF ANNOUNCEMENT_ENABLE_GUESTS and not S_USER_LOGGED_IN and not ANNOUNCEMENT_SHOW_EVERYONE and not ANNOUNCEMENT_SHOW-->
					<!-- IF ANNOUNCEMENT_TITLE_GUESTS -->{ANNOUNCEMENT_TITLE_GUESTS} <!-- ELSE --> {L_ANNOUNCEMENT_TITLE_GUESTS}<!-- ENDIF -->
					<!-- ELSEIF ANNOUNCEMENT_SHOW-->
					<!-- IF ANNOUNCEMENT_TITLE --> {ANNOUNCEMENT_TITLE} <!-- ELSE --> {L_ANNOUNCEMENT_TITLE}<!-- ENDIF -->
				<!-- ENDIF -->
				</h4></div></div></div></div>
			</tr>

			<tr>
				<td class="row1">
					<!-- IF ANNOUNCEMENT_ENABLE_GUESTS and not S_USER_LOGGED_IN and not ANNOUNCEMENT_SHOW_EVERYONE and not ANNOUNCEMENT_SHOW-->
					<div style="text-align:{ANNOUNCEMENT_GUESTS_ALIGN};"><br />{ANNOUNCEMENT_TEXT_GUESTS}<br /><br /></div>
					<!-- ELSEIF ANNOUNCEMENT_SHOW-->
						<!-- IF ANNOUNCEMENT_SHOW_BIRTHDAY-->
						<center>
							{ANNOUNCEMENT_BIRTHDAY_IMG}<br />
								<table>
									<tr align="center">
										<!-- IF ANNOUNCEMENT_BIRTHDAY_AVATAR -->
											<!-- BEGIN bdannounce -->
											<td>
												<table>
													<tr align="center">
														<td>{bdannounce.ANNOUNCEMENT_AVATAR}</td>
													</tr>
													<tr align="center" valign="bottom">
														<td><b>{bdannounce.ANNOUNCEMENT_USERNAME}</b></td>
													</tr>
												</table>
											</td>
											<!-- END bdannounce -->
										<!-- ELSE -->
											<!-- BEGIN bdannounce -->
											<td><b>{bdannounce.ANNOUNCEMENT_USERNAME}</b></td>
											<!-- END bdannounce -->
										<!-- ENDIF -->
									</tr>
								</table>
							</center>
							<!-- IF ANNOUNCEMENT_SHOW_BIRTHDAYS_AND_ANNOUNCE -->
							<div style="text-align:{ANNOUNCEMENT_ALIGN};">
							<hr/><br />{ANNOUNCEMENT_TEXT}
						<!-- IF S_HASATTACHMENTS -->
						<br clear="all" /><br />

						<table class="tablebg" width="100%" cellspacing="1">
						<tr>
							<td class="row3"><b class="genmed">{L_ATTACHMENTS}: </b></td>
						</tr>
						<!-- BEGIN announcement_attachments -->
							<tr>
								<!-- IF announcement_attachments.S_ROW_COUNT is even --><td class="row2"><!-- ELSE --><td class="row1"><!-- ENDIF -->{announcement_attachments.DISPLAY_ATTACHMENTS}</td>
							</tr>
						<!-- END announcement_attachments -->
						</table>
					<!-- ENDIF -->
										<!-- IF U_ANNOUNCEMENT_GOTOPOST -->
						<br /><br />
						<a href="{U_ANNOUNCEMENT_GOTOPOST}">{L_ANNOUNCEMENT_GOTOPOST}</a>
															
					<!-- ENDIF -->

<br /><br />
							</div>
							<!-- ENDIF -->
							<!-- ELSE -->
							<div style="text-align:{ANNOUNCEMENT_ALIGN};"><br />{ANNOUNCEMENT_TEXT}
						<!-- IF S_HASATTACHMENTS -->
						<br clear="all" /><br />

						<table class="tablebg" width="100%" cellspacing="1">
						<tr>
							<td class="row3"><b class="genmed">{L_ATTACHMENTS}: </b></td>
						</tr>
						<!-- BEGIN announcement_attachments -->
							<tr>
								<!-- IF announcement_attachments.S_ROW_COUNT is even --><td class="row2"><!-- ELSE --><td class="row1"><!-- ENDIF -->{announcement_attachments.DISPLAY_ATTACHMENTS}</td>
							</tr>
						<!-- END announcement_attachments -->
						</table>
					<!-- ENDIF -->
															<!-- IF U_ANNOUNCEMENT_GOTOPOST -->
						<br /><br />
						<a href="{U_ANNOUNCEMENT_GOTOPOST}">{L_ANNOUNCEMENT_GOTOPOST}</a>
															
					<!-- ENDIF -->

					<br /><br /></div>
							<!-- ENDIF -->
					<!-- ENDIF -->
				</td>
			</tr>
	<tr><td class="cat-bottom">&nbsp;</td></tr>
		</table>
	<div class="tbl-f-l"><div class="tbl-f-r"><div class="tbl-f-c">&nbsp;</div></div></div></div>
	</div>
	<!-- ENDIF -->
<!-- ENDIF -->

Needs cleaning up but functions 100%. Hope this helps anyone else who uses this style along with ACP Announcement Center MOD.

[lefty74]

@Sir Glen
I will have to have a look at the code again. hopefully this weekend.

announcement_center.html for Milky Way style in full:


Needs cleaning up but functions 100%. Hope this helps anyone else who uses this style along with ACP Announcement Center MOD.

cheers

[murdoch201]

i installed the mod succesful on phpbb3.0.2, but i can't find it in the ACP or MCP. I cleaned my cache, but it does not help.

How to fix this?

[lefty74]

you shoudl really upgrade to the latest phpbb version.

anyway, did you run the install file?

[murdoch201]

Yes, i did.

[lemo147]

hi guys
i install ACP Announcement Centre and it works very good until i upgarde my portal from 1.2.2 to 1.3
the ACP Announcement Centre now isnt show in the portal but appear in the index
any solution to back it to the portal ???

[lefty74]

Yes, i did.

and you cannot see it under the .MODs tab? that is odd

hi guys
i install ACP Announcement Centre and it works very good until i upgarde my portal from 1.2.2 to 1.3
the ACP Announcement Centre now isnt show in the portal but appear in the index
any solution to back it to the portal ???

i dont know, i have never installed a portal but i do know it works for others.

[lemo147]

thanks lefty74
i solve it

[murdoch201]

Yes, I even Can't find in the .Mod tab

[lefty74]

Yes, I even Can't find in the .Mod tab

can you verify that the announcement centre table is created in the database? you could try to run the install/index.php file again, click on uninstall.

then make sure that you are in debug mode (uncomment the last lines of code in config.php) and then run the install/index.php file again and click on install and let me know if you are getting any error messages or if this runs fine.

[AcAs]

is this mod compatible with v3.0.6?