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Changing skins on an already set up portal.

I am looking to change a portal that i have from one skin over to a new skin that i have been working on. My question is, how can i make the conversion from the old skin to the new skin seemless without having to move each module to a new pane (location) within a page? How does dotnetnuke place modules within a skin? Is it by the panes id / name? How can i query this information so that i can make this easy. Is there something i could do with my new skin to have the modules go into the same panes within the new skin. let me know. any help would be greatly appreciated.
asked 7/25/2012
Jimmy21
Jimmy

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To find out all the skins you are using try this in the SQL Window

SELECT     TOP (200) TabID, PortalID, TabName, Title, IsDeleted, SkinSrc, ContainerSrc
FROM         Tabs
WHERE     (SkinSrc IS NOT NULL)

Then check those skins for the names of the Panes, there will at least be ContentPane.  Then your new skin needs to have the same named panes so the modules will be lcaoted in the correct pane.

 
answered 7/25/2012 Philip Beadle 76
Philip Beadle

As far as I know the panes are identified by an unique ID (TOPPANE, CONTENTPANE...), . So if the panes in the new skin have same ID, the module will alocate there.

I found this that could be useful for you maybe:
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Portals/25/CoreTeam/BlogFiles/TimoBreumelhof/DotNetNuke%205%20Skin%20Objects%20Beta%20Doc%204.pdf
answered 7/25/2012 Baifo Designs 615
Baifo Designs

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