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Global Block

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Date: Friday, 2008-12-19, 8:04 Am | Message # 1

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Global blocks are blocks available in all other templates of your website. By means of global blocks you can optimize the design of your website, having spitted it into common parts: e.g. HEADER – common top part, FOOTER – common bottom part etc. With the help of common blocks you can update the design on the whole website by means of editing only one block template.

Where to create a global block in the Control Panel:

Mail » Customize Design » Global blocks

Block name must contain only upper case Latin letters, max length is 10 characters. This name will serve as the $code$ of the given global block in templates.

Max number of global blocks is 10, including $GLOBAL_FRIENDS$.

Note: If you are going to edit templates you must have basic knowledge of HTML and CSS.

There is one default global block - Site Friends.

Example of the block code:

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<ul class="uz">
<li class="menus"> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ucoz.com/"><img src="http://money.ucoz.com/img/logo.gif" border="0" width="101" height="50" title="Create a site with uCoz" alt="Create a site with uCoz"></a></li></ul>
<div align="center">Forums</div>
<ul class="uz">
<li class="menus"><a href="http://www.forum.ucoz.com/" target="_blank" class="noun">English</a></li>
<li class="menus"><a href="http://www.forum.ucoz.de/" target="_blank" class="noun">German</a></li>
<li class="menus"><a href="http://www.forum.ucoz.es/" target="_blank" class="noun">Spanish</a></li>
</ul>

This is how it looks in templates:

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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="boxTable"><tr><td class="boxTitle"><b>Site friends</b></td></tr><tr><td class="boxContent">$GLOBAL_FRIENDS$</td></tr></table>

Question-Answer

How can I add global block in global block?

You can't... we don't support global blocks nesting.

New global block! How can I add one?

1. add global block
2. fill it with content.
3. add the code $GLOBAL_ANYWORD$ to the templates you want that block to be shown in.
Don't forget about the feature "Quick substitution of template parts" and try to examine the feature "Templates builder" in Design tab of the Control Panel.

I’ve noticed the global block $GLOBAL_SOANDSO$ will not run inside $CONTENT$ area.
Correct me if am wrong!

You are right. Global blocks work in templates only

Just 10 global blocks?

10 is the limit, you can't create more global blocks.

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Hetor

Date: Saturday, 2009-01-03, 12:34 Pm | Message # 2

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I have a question, why doesn't they work in gb entry appearance template? I could replace my avatar display code in comments & gb with simple &GLOBAL_AVATAR&.

I am bored.

Sunny

Date: Monday, 2009-01-05, 5:38 Am | Message # 3

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Hetor, because global blocks are not needed in entry appearance templates. E.g. we have 1000 entries and one single template for all of them - so this template is in fact global. Hope you understand what I mean.

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shioan

Date: Wednesday, 2009-01-07, 8:15 Pm | Message # 4

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Is it possible to make a global block appear on selected Site Pages only?

I have a previous inquiry here regarding creating a submenu. I followed Armaros instructions so now I have a new box for the submenu (yay! :D), in which I made use of a global block. but I want this submenu to appear only when I click on the corresponding main menu item. is that possible?

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Message edited by shioan - Wednesday, 2009-01-07, 8:34 Pm

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Date: Wednesday, 2009-01-07, 8:45 Pm | Message # 5

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Is it possible to make a global block appear on selected Site Pages only?

yes its possible

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Date: Thursday, 2009-01-08, 1:07 Am | Message # 6

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Quote (shioan)
Is it possible to make a global block appear on selected Site Pages only?

yes its possible

yipeee!!! so how do you do it?

[EDIT]

okay, never mind... happy

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[/EDIT]

Added (2009-01-07, 11:34 Pm)
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okay, my first submenu is up. biggrin thanks! this forum rocks!

one more question though...

is it possible to make a different global block appear on a different set of selected pages? in other words, i want to make a second submenu under a new different item on the main menu.

Added (2009-01-08, 1:07 Am)
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hehe, silly me. that makes it NOT global anymore... dry

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Message edited by shioan - Wednesday, 2009-01-07, 10:13 Pm

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Date: Monday, 2009-01-19, 2:15 Pm | Message # 7

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thnaks this helped because i have never really messed with mine due to lack of knowledge ty

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Date: Thursday, 2009-02-19, 10:07 Pm | Message # 8

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whew.. thanks for this im also wondering wat global block stand for...

smokingunzz

Date: Sunday, 2009-02-22, 3:03 Pm | Message # 9

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Is it possible to remove the site friends block and how???

Armaros

Date: Sunday, 2009-02-22, 3:50 Pm | Message # 10

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smokingunzz,

CP -> Customize Design -> Global blocks (Top-Right) ->

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Date: Sunday, 2009-02-22, 5:36 Pm | Message # 11

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CP -> Customize Design -> Global blocks (Top-Right) ->

it says "You don't use any global blocks." But the Site Friends is still there??

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Date: Sunday, 2009-02-22, 5:49 Pm | Message # 12

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smokingunzz,

CP -> Customize Design -> Site Pages -> Find $GLOBAL_FRIENDS$

Quote (Remove whole code. Whole code look like this)


<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="196">
<tr><td height="24" align="center" style="background:url('http://s16.ucoz.net/t/881/10.gif') #000000;color:#FFFFFF;"><b>Site friends</b></td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding:5px;">$GLOBAL_FRIENDS$</td></tr>
</table>


smokingunzz

Date: Sunday, 2009-02-22, 7:57 Pm | Message # 13

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Worked perfect! Thank you very much!

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Date: Friday, 2009-02-27, 11:09 Am | Message # 14

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hello, my english isn't very good, but iguess u can understand me.

I hawe the problem with the global blocks. id like to add stuff in there but how? in here it just teaches how to add urls and theese are opening a new window. i m sorry if u guys don't understand me

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Date: Friday, 2009-02-27, 11:12 Am | Message # 15

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You can add content to them through:

CP > Customize Design. There click on the global block you want to add content to.