New Header Priority...WHY?

[baddog]

Your new header assignment interface screwed up my site for the past week. I had an assigned header to my front page and another header assigned to all the rest of the pages.

Now you added a priority setting in the last theme update and decided to give my generic header a higher priority then the main front page header, why is that…? Yes, I tested this on a sandbox site first but that site only had one header in use, my bad… but still?

So what was the purpose of this priority setting? It seemed to be working just fine before by assigning headers to specific pages, or all or just one. “Global” worked…really!
What are the default parameters to decide which header gets the higher priority, if there is more than one header exists and all are being used?

I have been telling a potential client to watch the intro video on my splash page and they keep telling me the video does not play…

[marc_a]

Hi @baddog,

Thanks for reaching out.

The purpose of Priority is that the Priority comes into play if you have two assets that might potentially overlap in some instances, allowing you to specify which should take precedent over the other. In these cases, the layout with the lowest priority will be used. To know more about the conditions and assignments in the header and footer builder, please check doc.

Hope that helps.

Thank you.

[baddog]

So what were the default setting for existing sites? Sites, with multiple headers assigned to different pages within the site?

That’s what messed up my site, it just set random priorities for my headers.

[nabeel]

Hey @baddog,

The default priority is 0 for the existing headers you now need to set the priority to display the correct headers. If it’s not set then header will be displayed based on the time created if the priority is 0 for multiple assignments.

Hope this helps!