Send a message to your visitors in real-time

Hi all, I think it would be a neat and smart way of alerting visitors if you could make an addon that allows a admin or a privileged user to go in admin zone and go somewhere (function somewhere in the menus to choose from) and enter text and then it's displayed across the whole site and then disappears.

You can do something similar with the Supershout add-on.

Although it is not restricted to privileged users, it could be modified.

I don't think it would work, it's not doing what I think could be a good idea.

Hi, I have decided it's a good idea, how do I set the permissions so that only staff can shake the screen and make posts display everywhere?

You will need to put the following code:
in the Supershout template around the parts that you don't want normal users to see, namely the input box and the submit button.

I don't know exactly which template it is because I don't have Supershout installed.

Do I put this around the code that is on the page it self?

Right, I have done, it, it works well, very good.

But, when I a normal user goes to a page the fly in messaging and shake of screen doesn't happen because of the shout box doesn't show up.

Then you have probably put the new code around too much of the shout box code.

Ok….?


What do you mean?

All I added was:

(This was before the shout box block:
{+START,IF,{$OR,{$IS_STAFF},{$IS_SUPER_ADMIN}}}

This is after:

{+END}


What's wrong with that I did?

Sounds like you have put the code in your side panel template instead of the supershout template.

From memory, supershout is more or less a drop-in replacement for the standard shoutbox, in which case the template you want should be BLOCK_SIDE_SHOUTBOX.tpl .

In that template, put the code around:

Thanks, but where is the Super Shout template located?

Admin Zone » Style » Manage themes » Choose
Edit templates and select BLOCK_SIDE_SHOUTBOX.tpl .

Thank you SOO much Temp1024, it's worked!
 

It's working good, but I can't seem to get "Guest" so see the box…….

Ouch I checked for a "Member" and the box didn't show either, but super member and above gets shown the box.

Did you remove the code that you put in the wrong place before?

There was no code by <form> </form>

I'm referring to what you wrote here:

Voarsh said

Ok….?


What do you mean?

All I added was:

(This was before the shout box block:
{+START,IF,{$OR,{$IS_STAFF},{$IS_SUPER_ADMIN}}}

This is after:

{+END}


What's wrong with that I did?

That code there hides the whole shout box from everyone except staff and admin.

Well, it's allowing super-members to view it, super-members and above.

But with the super-members above don't get shown the send and shake buttons.

But I do.

The code checks for staff and admin groups only. If you want to give other groups permissions then you need to add them to the OR list. I think for super-members you need to add {$IS_IN_GROUP,4} .

The main group numbers are
   1   Guests
   2   Administrators
   3   Staff
   4   Super-members

See ocPortal Tutorial: Tempcode programming - ocPortal for more info on IS_IN_GROUP.