I added the globalnode with "type" entered, and got the additional type field in block assign

Now I am confused. I do not understand what

"Enter a node type (e.g. "blog") if you wish to create a block association for the selected blocks."

actually means.

Can some patient person enlighten this with first grade english please? What is a node type? What is an association of a block for selected blocks?

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dllh commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

For the type attribute to work, you have to have the Global Node module installed and configured. That module lets you specify attributes of nodes to make available in a global context. That is, you can say "for the current node, make it so that my theme or other modules can have access to its type attribute". The Block Assign module then looks for the type attribute of the current node and displays the assigned blocks.