Persistant Status Bar Notification ... error 'SP.UI.Status' is null or not an object

Question

I want to show a status bar that needs to be persistent on a page. for this I used the following in my master page
function ShowStatusBarMessage(title, message)
var statusId = SP.UI.Status.addStatus(title, message, true);
SP.UI.Status.setStatusPriColor(statusId, 'yellow'); /* Set a status-color */
HTML, call the JS method:
<a onclick="ShowStatusBarMessage('Title'!','Awesome message!')">
Display Status Bar message!
</a>
ref:
http://www.zimmergren.net/archive/2010/03/17/sp-2010-dynamically-displaying-messages-to-your-users-with-the-notification-and-status-bar-areas-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx
But what I want is
to call the function on load. So I used pushed ny function to _spBodyOnLoadWrapper using _spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push("YourFunctionName");,
it throws an error 'SP.UI.Status' is null or not an object
Next I created and
deployed a webcontrol and did a registerclientscript, that too gives me 'SP.UI.Status' is null or not an object
// Define the name and type of the client scripts on the page.
String csname1 = "AlertScript";
Type cstype = this.GetType();
// Get a ClientScriptManager reference from the Page class.
ClientScriptManager cs = Page.ClientScript;
// Check to see if the startup script is already registered.
if (!cs.IsStartupScriptRegistered(cstype, csname1))
StringBuilder cstext1 = new StringBuilder();
cstext1.Append("<script type=text/javascript> alert('Hello World!');");
cstext1.Append("var statusId = SP.UI.Status.addStatus('title', 'message', true);");
cstext1.Append("SP.UI.Status.setStatusPriColor(statusId, 'yellow'); </");
cstext1.Append("script>");
cs.RegisterStartupScript(cstype, csname1, cstext1.ToString());
What am I missing ?
How can I get to show a status bar on load of any page, just as you get a health analyzer message when you get into the Central Admin?
Thanks, Mano
Mano Mangaldas | Blog : http://howtosharepoint.blogspot.com 

Answer 1

Ok, for some reason, it is not working for me. Below are the code that didnt work for me
<script type="text/javascript">
function ShowStatusBarMessage(title, message)
var statusId = SP.UI.Status.addStatus(title, message, true);
SP.UI.Status.setStatusPriColor(statusId, 'red');
ShowStatusBarMessage('Title!','Awesome message!');
</script>
This too didnt work
<script type="text/javascript">
function ShowStatusBarMessage()
var statusId = SP.UI.Status.addStatus('Some title', 'Some message', true);
SP.UI.Status.setStatusPriColor(statusId, 'red');
_spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push("ShowStatusBarMessage");
</script>
I did try to register client script block programatically, that too didnt work
String csname1 = "AlertScript";
Type cstype = this.GetType();
// Get a ClientScriptManager reference from the Page class.
ClientScriptManager cs = Page.ClientScript;
// Check to see if the startup script is already registered.
if (!cs.IsStartupScriptRegistered(cstype, csname1))
StringBuilder cstext1 = new StringBuilder();
cstext1.Append("<script type=text/javascript>");
cstext1.Append("var statusId = SP.UI.Status.addStatus('title', 'message', true);");
cstext1.Append("SP.UI.Status.setStatusPriColor(statusId, 'yellow'); </");
cstext1.Append("script>");
cs.RegisterStartupScript(cstype, csname1, cstext1.ToString());
Any help appreciated.
But the below code works..
<script type="text/javascript">
function ShowStatusBarMessage(title, message)
var statusId = SP.UI.Status.addStatus(title, message, true);
SP.UI.Status.setStatusPriColor(statusId, 'yellow'); /* Set a status-color */
</script>
<a onclick="ShowStatusBarMessage('Title!','Awesome message!')" href="#">
Display Status Bar message!
</a>
Thanks
mano
Mano Mangaldas | Blog : http://howtosharepoint.blogspot.com