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BTW looking at the code now.. Should not be hard to update to support 3.3 Let me have a try and get back to you.

@Bleistivt thank you very much for the guidance. I got it working. This is what I did, leaving a trail for others to do similarly.

1) Right, I use Pockets, that much is a given.

2) On my website, I use a small paid ChatBox/Shoutbox solution which I have displayed in the right side panel. This is because there is no native Vanilla solution anymore.

3) I use the Bootstrap theme, Darkly option.

My goal: to make the ChatBox only visible to signed-in members, and not to Guests nor Applicants. It still needs to be visible in the right-side panel, but disappear when members sign out.

Steps to remediate:

1) Find the code to use:

{if $User.SignedIn}
{pocket name="Cbox"}
{/if}

2) The theme tpl to use. In my case:

themes/Bootstrap/views/default-master.tpl

3) The Pocket (Cbox) was already created (mostly an iframe driven piece of code). The key is to set it to Custom (not panel). Custom will allow the Pocket to appear/disappear, while if set to Panel, it will be fixed, which is not what we want.

With that information in place, we needed to insert the code into the appropriate part of the tpl file, namely the right-side panel called <aside class="page-sidebar". This was the area in my template to be changed:

<aside class="page-sidebar" role="complementary">
     {asset name="Panel"}
    {if $User.SignedIn}
{pocket name="Cbox"}
{/if}
    </aside>

What this conditional will do is display the Cbox Pocket when users are signed in, and switch it off when guests only.

Obviously this config can be used for many usages.

Despite some pokery and jiggery I got it to work, though I feel the initial documentation which goes back some years did more to confuse rather than clarify.

Oh, and there appears to be a glaring error in the doco on one piece of code which should be corrected.

Thanks again.

@phreak thank you so much for your reply and guidance, I’ll try that 👍

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