I have a situation where I want to display different Banner Topics dependent on the users group membership. Namely, I’d like to show one banner if a user isn’t logged in and a different one if they are but aren’t a part of a specific group. I could likely set up categories to target the two sectors…

I worry that this would be extremely confusing from an admin perspective. I would need a completely new UI to support configuring this without enormous amounts of admin confusion. One hacky possibility with minimal change would be to have one big banner for everyone and then use CSS to hide bits.

That was my concern as well. It would be a pain to manage as an admin. I just wondered if it was even possible. [image] sam: On hacky possibility with minimal change would be to have one big banner for everyone and then use CSS to hide bits. I may give this a try as it seems much quicker and…

I know you can do it for anon versus logged in, but I’m not sure you can achieve it via Groups. As to my knowledge there is no high-level (on the html or body tag) CSS class denoting the group the user is a part of.

[image] joebuhlig: Outside of using an nth-selector, is there another way to do this? Yeah it is not going to be easy, nth selector is what you are going to be forced to use. Otherwise you are going to be forced to whitelist stuff for everyone.

Thanks, @sam and @cpradio . I think my plan of attack will be to add the group names to the body/html classes and follow down to the nth div of the banner topic. :thumbsup:

Are you going to use :nth-child () selector? [image] :nth-child() - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN The :nth-child() CSS pseudo-class matches elements based on the indexes of the elements in the child list of their parents. In other words, the :nth-child() selector selects child eleme…

Ended up going a different route entirely. I built a custom theme that inserts the pieces I need as a header. The theme did all the work I needed.

Digging out this one We currently have a client category for all our clients including subcategories for each individual ones. Now we are looking for a way to display a banner topic which is only visible to users who are in the client group. Has anyone been able to find a workaround for this? Hi…

Not sure if this plugin might work but the plugin Author is excellent and may consider feature request. [image] Discourse Category Home house Plugin Summary: Give users each a specific Homepage (“Home Category”) in your community. It allows you to have a sin…

Group specific Banner Topics?

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Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency) January 27, 2024, 1:56am 11

Not sure if this plugin might work but the plugin Author is excellent and may consider feature request.

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