But banners will render various content that is supported on topics, e.g. emojis, animations, video links… So you could use (and abuse) this in many ways
In Settings, you select views by their relative url and topics by their id. You can also position the banners on one of three different plugin-outlets and only show them to a specific group:
Does this include polls (which you can interact with)? (it’s been something we miss a lot, to put a poll visible to everyone instead of hidden somewhere in a post)
I found a bug in this component, when it is enabled and configured to show the topic of only a specific group.
If the guest or users attend the forum not from this group, the pages update works incorrect, the other topics are not load after page refresh in browser.
Console:
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'groups')
at n.html (68eb2e30e7629f8db22df6fed8efb777b0183d8d.js?__ws=mydomain.com:114:36)
at n.value (application-8b970b30b88888346a1f4d53543a21332202376215babe59aa315ac2054a2627.js:sourcemap:1:3239172)
at n.value (application-8b970b30b88888346a1f4d53543a21332202376215babe59aa315ac2054a2627.js:sourcemap:1:3235241)
at s (_vendor-0cf07f050f530b08ccc553a048b7cccd4edb486adc39b865c07d6c6c1cc57fbf.js:90601:45)
at t.exports (_vendor-0cf07f050f530b08ccc553a048b7cccd4edb486adc39b865c07d6c6c1cc57fbf.js:90584:21)
at m (_vendor-0cf07f050f530b08ccc553a048b7cccd4edb486adc39b865c07d6c6c1cc57fbf.js:90988:17)
at h (_vendor-0cf07f050f530b08ccc553a048b7cccd4edb486adc39b865c07d6c6c1cc57fbf.js:90856:9)
at d (_vendor-0cf07f050f530b08ccc553a048b7cccd4edb486adc39b865c07d6c6c1cc57fbf.js:90843:5)
at n.rerenderWidget (application-8b970b30b88888346a1f4d53543a21332202376215babe59aa315ac2054a2627.js:sourcemap:1:1455271)
at t.invoke (_vendor-0cf07f050f530b08ccc553a048b7cccd4edb486adc39b865c07d6c6c1cc57fbf.js:66550:16)
at e.t.flush (_vendor-0cf07f050f530b08ccc553a048b7cccd4edb486adc39b865c07d6c6c1cc57fbf.js:66442:13)
at e.t.flush (_vendor-0cf07f050f530b08ccc553a048b7cccd4edb486adc39b865c07d6c6c1cc57fbf.js:66646:21)
at e.n._end (_vendor-0cf07f050f530b08ccc553a048b7cccd4edb486adc39b865c07d6c6c1cc57fbf.js:67222:34)
at e.n.end (_vendor-0cf07f050f530b08ccc553a048b7cccd4edb486adc39b865c07d6c6c1cc57fbf.js:66908:12)
at e.n._run (_vendor-0cf07f050f530b08ccc553a048b7cccd4edb486adc39b865c07d6c6c1cc57fbf.js:67277:16)
at e.n._join (_vendor-0cf07f050f530b08ccc553a048b7cccd4edb486adc39b865c07d6c6c1cc57fbf.js:67251:21)
at e.n.join (_vendor-0cf07f050f530b08ccc553a048b7cccd4edb486adc39b865c07d6c6c1cc57fbf.js:66968:19)
at h (_vendor-0cf07f050f530b08ccc553a048b7cccd4edb486adc39b865c07d6c6c1cc57fbf.js:53760:28)
at HTMLDocument.<anonymous> (_vendor-0cf07f050f530b08ccc553a048b7cccd4edb486adc39b865c07d6c6c1cc57fbf.js:53864:19)
at l (_vendor-0cf07f050f530b08ccc553a048b7cccd4edb486adc39b865c07d6c6c1cc57fbf.js:3776:29)
at c (_vendor-0cf07f050f530b08ccc553a048b7cccd4edb486adc39b865c07d6c6c1cc57fbf.js:3844:12)
Thanks for posting this! I could only replicate an error when no user is logged in and I added a fix for that. Could you update the component and try again?
ohh, this is awesome! great theme-component as it allows a nice individualisation of each category which seems far superior to the category banner theme component of official - but i might be mistaken
in that sense it might be good to add category banner to the title of the post.
I’m not sure the component is a good replacement for category banners. Some caveats:
it will load much slower
it will not hold dynamic content. E.g. when you change the category name, it won’t update on the component
it’s also more complicated to set up
That being said, I’d be curious to see how you use it that way
I only have on use case for this component myself right now, that is serving an expanded intro topic in one community. No plans to add to the component right now.
@nolo Digging out this one, testing on 3.1.4 currently.
But the " show to group" setting is not working when I add a specific group. Tried case sensitive, but the banner topic is not displayed. When the setting is empty, then it works. Any idea?
Oh yeah, the component will need some re-factoring… There’s quite some code and I don’t even have a use case myself any longer. Could we tag this as un-maintained?
@jrgong don’t know what you are trying to set up, but you could probably try this Announcement Bar component? It’s styled for a bar layout by default, but with a bit of css and putting it on the above-main-container outlet it can be very similar. Needs html instead of markdown. No group features either, but big advantage is it’s disposable.
Credits: The widget code for this component is essentially a copy of the Category Sidebars component by @awesomerobot and, as I take it, @xrav3nz
