How to use the vanilla Inform User Notifications

nghesi

Hello, i'm just an amateur user, now I want to display an inform message last until user dismiss it. I've read some information here:
http://vanillaforums.org/docs/informmessages
But I don't know where to put these code. Can anyone please help?

peregrine

you put it in your plugin, application, or themehooks - would be three possible choices.

you trigger it off an event in php - if using the php way of informing

or if you are using a js - you trigger it off an event in js. - if you are triggering off a mouse move or click or whatever.

it's not really an amateur question. you use non-dismiss.

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@But ...

But, probably what you really want is using messages created via the dashboard options and then use the non-dismiss.

kind of like this message that appears at the top of the screen.

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vrijvlinder

hi, yes you go in the dashboard and from the left hand panel select messages.

Then add message and a popup opens with a form where you put in the message or html content.

Then you select where you want it to show. Panel is bellow side bar. the other option is above the content.

Then you select what type of message if warning or other. That will affect how the message looks by default. Then you can edit the css of your theme to change it's looks.

Select enable before you save the message.

You can also sort them by dragging and dropping them in the order you want.

vrijvlinder

You should have pasted the message in the new discussion post page about version of vanilla...as well

There is the InformSprites Plugin by S , maybe that could be modified to change the messages or do what they want with the tiny messages at the bottom left.

nghesi

Thank you peregrine and vrijvlinder - Sorry I haven't known I can add message in dashboard. I think my problem was just resolved.

vrijvlinder

We may be talking about two kinds of messages ... those that you create as I mentioned above and those that show up on the bottom left of the page when something happens like a mention or private message comes in as peregrine mentioned above.