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9/2/2010 11:01 AM
 

Hello all,

I've got a couple of beginner questions that I'm struggling with.

I am following along The Accidental Geek's skin tutorial (http://blog.theaccidentalgeek.com/pos...) and am stuck in Part 2.

A)  How do I get DNN to recognize that my skin has changed/updated?  I am writing my changes directly to the Portals\Skins\XYZ folder where my skin is being stored.  I have gone into the Skins page under the admin menu and "parsed" the file again, but there seems to be no luck.

B)  The blog post talks about applying a skin to a page by using the page settings, advanced settings section but I cannot find the menu option to apply a skin to a page anywhere. What am I missing about that process?

Thanks,

-Ben


 
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9/3/2010 1:55 AM
 
If you create an HTML skin Admin > Skins, select the skin and click the parse link, should do it
That parses the HTML file to a new ASCX file.
For an ASCX skin you don't have to do anything.


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9/3/2010 1:57 AM
 
To answer B, if you have a control panel with tabs (ribbon bar), you select the page and click the edit icon on the left, which takes you to the page settings

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9/3/2010 7:59 AM
 
Timo, Thanks for the quick reply! Re-parsing the file is what I was doing, so I suspect that my issue lies elsewhere. I am trying to attach a CSS file to my skin and it doesn't appear to be affecting my layout. Is there something special I need to be doing to attach CSS to my skin file? Also, thanks for the page-settings pointer. I was using the "settings" icon in the lower-right hand side of the page, which links to different settings. -Ben
 
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9/3/2010 8:30 AM
 
Yes, DNN does not see a CSS file you add to an existing skin unless you restart DNN.
Goto Host > Host Setttings and restart with the link at the bottom of the page

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