Question No announcement box

Latest install of 1.7.1

Looking at the diplayBox() function in kunena.announcement.class.php, I see that the announcement box only shows if the "show announcement" is true in the configuration *AND* there is an ID of a valid announcement.

This makes sense except for one problem: on a new install, there are no announcements, so the box never shows. Since the box never shows, the options to create new announcements is never seen, so an announcement can't be created. Ever.

Bug?

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Hello,

You should have a link to go to announcements page if you the permission, this should help you : docs.kunena.org/index.php/Kunena_Announcements

Yes, and what I'm saying is that the check for the ID of the announcement fails to show this display if there are no announcements.

Removing that ID check fixes the problem.

I need to look this more closer, this is weird

Look at the code in diplayBox() - you will see two checks on the conditional. The first is for announcements being configured as enabled. The second is a check on the ID. It's the second that causes this bug.

When you have no announcements, you don't need to have this box because you have the announcement link :