[pmwiki-users] Fix: Using inote markup as a systemwide LatestNews flag/sticky

[John Rankin]

Try the latest markup extensions. Comments below.

On Friday, 12 August 2005 4:21 AM, K.A.Bouton <k.a.bouton at reading.ac.uk> wrote:
>I have been looking into postitnotes, stickynotes and inotes.
>Has one takenover from the others?
>
>With markup extension inote its nice to use the include page to create a
>stickynote on all farm field homepages when there is something I need to let
>everyone know eg Main.LatestNews
>
>How do I change the format/look of it - especially without editing
>extendmarkup.php  and markup.css
>
>1) I want the header in the sticky note to read the the (:title:) of the
>page I am calling in

Done.

>2) I don't want the edit link (I have hand edited the extendmarkup file to
>remove this but thhere should be another way so I don't overwrite this with
>updates)

You can set the $InoteTextFmt variable to control the look of the heading.

>3) I want to be able to set the color of the sticky note as is done with the
>postitnote extension.

You can over-ride this in your pub/css/local.css file

>4) And - getting fancier - Would be nice if I could use it conditionally by
>date - if date of LatestNews is older that 30 days don't show it

(:inote days=30 LatestNews:)

The format of the message is set in thr $InoteExpiredFmt variable.
>
>Thanks
>Katherine

OTOH you can experiment with using a >>customdiv<<


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