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I need to make or find a block that will allow me to set say 3 pieces of pre-defined text as a site admin. Green, Amber, Red. Then I want to be able to allow a privileged user to set only one to be actively displayed at a time. I can create the input part and the db.xml.
What's the best way to go about telling the display to only show the one marked as active?
Ultimately what I need to build is a way for a site admin to set pre-defined messages for road conditions and reporting status for employees. Then we'd allow a few people access to be able to select which message is being displayed based on weather, etc. This way they aren't in there just entering text in a Rich Text box, freehand.
Is there a block that might already do this that I missed even?
What's the best way to go about telling the display to only show the one marked as active?
Ultimately what I need to build is a way for a site admin to set pre-defined messages for road conditions and reporting status for employees. Then we'd allow a few people access to be able to select which message is being displayed based on weather, etc. This way they aren't in there just entering text in a Rich Text box, freehand.
Is there a block that might already do this that I missed even?
If I understand your problem correctly this could be implemented with a custom "select" page attribute. Then you can use the built-in 'Page Attribute Display' block type to output the value.
Might work. Just need to figure out the select page attribute part.
You should be able to create a select attribute Dashboard -> Pages & Themes -> Attributes enter your 3 colors in the options. Then on the front end check that attribute on the current page like this
$c = Page::getCurrentPage(); $attribute_value = $c->getAttribute('attribute_handle'); if($attribute_value === 'Value 1'){ //do things for value 1 } elseif($attribute_value === 'Value 2'){ //do things for value 2 } elseif($attribute_value === 'Value 3'){ //do things for value 3 }
