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    Posted by sholzy posts: 29


    Using Tiki 14.0

    I've created a simple custom module (MessageBox) to display messages to groups depending on permissions. This works well. What I also want to do is only show that module on certain pages based on the module's parameters. I can do this partially.

    I want to show this module on my Welcome page, Wiki Home page, and only the "front" page of the section "forums".

    This works (without forum)

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    nobox=y&page[]=Welcome&page[]=Wiki Home


    But, if I add "&page[]=forums" (being it's the front "page" for the forum)

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    nobox=y&page[]=Welcome&page[]=Wiki Home&page[]=forums

    no module is displayed on the forum. (I was hoping both section and page used the same name.)

    That leads me to displaying a separate module using "section=forums" and add "&nopage[]=" for each forum

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    nobox=y&section=forums&nopage[]=forum5&nopage[]=forum7&nopage[]=forum8

    which still shows that module on all forum pages.

    In my testing, it seems mixing "section" and "page"/"nopage" parameters together doesn't work. Maybe I'm missing something here?

    Is there way to show a custom module on just the "front" page of the forum section?

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    Posted by Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties posts: 3665 United States

    The nopage parameter works only for wiki pages, that's why things like nopage[]=forum8 won't work.

    If you only want the module to appear on the "home" page of the forum, I think you're going to have to use a smarty expression to evaluate the specific Tiki template being used. For example:

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    {if $mid eq 'tiki-view_forum.tpl'}
{module module="NameOfModuleToDisplay"}
{/if}

     

    This would display the module NameOfModuleToDislay only when Tiki displays the "home" page of a forum (such as https://tiki.org/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=4) but not when display a post or thread (such as https://tiki.org/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?comments_parentId=57062).

    Alternatively, you could customize the template TPL (tiki_view_forum.tpl) directly, and build a set of if statements.

    HTH,

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