What is the most effective way to highlight a message or information to a specific role
I have run into this with both Gamma & Qualtrics lately. Nextdoor also had a very similar use case.They want to be able to have a message that appears conditionally to users of a certain role. Our documentation on conditional pockets suggests you can do it via permission but that has to be a very specific permission and that does not work for all use cases. The only way to do a conditional pocket by role requires a theme hook and therefore would need a custom theme from Vanilla or VIP code deploy.
Are there any other methods of displaying an informational message to only a specific role? I've often thought it would be a good idea if our Moderation messages could have role view permissions.
Ideas I have had:
-Use a category that only that role that you want to instruct in a certain way can see and make it pop
-Use a Rank where the only criteria is to have the role. In the case of Gamma this is expired users who no longer have an account. The Rank can give them a message + email informing them of their reduced privileges. I am thinking the Rank will have to be a higher level than those within the gamification system. Should a user return to active and therefore only possess the role of Active, would they then lose their Rank and return to the highest Rank they qualify for? I am not so sure also about the email they will receive, will it start with Congratulations? Ranks don't usually relate to negative things. Overall I don't like this idea and I find it messy.
Does anyone have any ideas themselves on how you might be able to indicate a message/some information to only a specific role?
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For Gamma, it could be a plugin. For Qualtrics, they can do it with a theme hook.
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@BrigitteP Has a pretty good idea - you could designate the pocket as an Ad and give the roles you want to see it the no ads permission.
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@BrendanParm said:
@BrigitteP Has a pretty good idea - you could designate the pocket as an Ad and give the roles you want to see it the no ads permission.@BrigitteP is so smart omgaw
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For what it's worth, Gamma opted to display the message to their expired users by making it a category. They will probably end up styling it a bit more, perhaps putting some kind of border around it.
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Clever.
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