Define a widget area in a partial template

Florian Müller

Good morning.

I just defined a widget area in the menu.tpl (partial used in header.tpl) called navbarsearch with a global scope (all pages). That area is visible in the admin panel, I assigned a dummy html widget to it.

theme.js

{
	name: 'NavBar Search Area',
	template: 'global',
	location: 'navbarsearch',
}

partial template:

<div widget-area="navbarsearch" style="background-color: red; flex-grow: 1;"></div>

api output:

"widgets": {
    "navbarsearch": [ {
        "html": "<div class=\"well\">Test</div>"
    } ], ...

The api-output of any page shows the widget contents, but it doesn't get rendered into the widget-area... Did I miss anything?

Best,
Flo

<baris>

Widgets are only rendered on the page itself right now https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/master/src/middleware/render.js#L53. We would have to add support so they are rendered in renderHeader method as well. Open an issue on our github it could be a nice addition.