judgej · newb

In case this is useful to anyone else, this is what I added to a custom plugin (I have a plugin just for adding custom overrides):

public function MessageController_AfterGetAssetData_Handler(&$Sender) {
$Sender->EventArguments['AssetData']['Foot1'] = 'Footer column 1';
$Sender->EventArguments['AssetData']['Foot2'] = 'Footer column 2';
$Sender->EventArguments['AssetData']['Foot3'] = 'Footer column 3';
$Sender->EventArguments['AssetData']['Foot4'] = 'Footer column 4';
}


That function then adds four new message positions to allow me to add content. These show up in the dashboard->messages->add popup.

In my theme I have four columns defined, each of which pulls messages as content from one of the four message asset areas, e.g. in the theme views/default.master.php:


<div id="Foot">
<div class="column1"><?php $this->RenderAsset('Foot1'); ?></div>
<div class="column2"><?php $this->RenderAsset('Foot2'); ?></div>
...etc
</div>


And that is it. Apart from styling, this now gives me four areas in the footer where I can add more information that can be be changed regularly through the admin screens.

No sorry. Once the web service API has been expanded to handle updates as well as simply reading data, I'm sure there will be a proliferation of such plugins and services.

This is a nice feature, and I'm sure it would be useful.

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