Hey Dennis

Have you had a look through the documentation / videos on creating skins?

http://umbraco.org/follow-us/blog-archive/2010/11/4/learn-how-to-create-a-skin

Matt

Yes I did. I am able to create skins for the starterpack templates. But how can I do this for templates that are not part of a starter pack?

Hey Dennis,

I can't say I've done this myself yet, but looking through the documentation, I would guess that you'd need to create a manifest file to tell umbraco what makes up your skin, and to what templates it applies.

I'm not sure how a manifest is actually installed, but if it's anything like a standard package, it probably updates a config file (App_Data/Packages/Installed/installedPackages.config) so I'd look for something similar and trying adding to it manually (be carefull though, you could mess up your install)

Failing that, you could try installing a dummy template, and repointing everything to your current files?

Matt

Hi Matt,

Thanks for your response.

I have made a skin including a skin manifest file. This skins works on the starter kit templates. I can configure this skin as well.

However, I want to be able to choose a skin on my own templates. So without using starter packs at all.

Lets say we have a template with an alias of "myTemplate".

In the skin manifest the rule:

<AllowedRootTemplate>umbBusinessHomepage</AllowedRootTemplate>

Has been changed to:

<AllowedRootTemplate>myTemplate</AllowedRootTemplate>

This way it should make sense that this skin is now available for the "myTemplate" template.
However, in umbraco I am not able to choose any skin for the 'myTemplate' template.
If I try to apply a skin on the starterkit template I am able to choose the skin. So that is just weird because the allowed root template has been changes to "myTemplate".

So is it possible to use skins without the use of the starterkit templates?

Hey Dennis,

I haven't really played with this myself, so not too sure I'm the best person to help. 2 things I would suggest.

1) Restart your app pool as it may be caching the previous file

2) Check the value isn't also stored somewhere in the database

Other than that, I'm not too sure I can help much more.

Matt

No luck, but thanks for the try!

Hi Dennis,

Have you had any joy wiring up a skin to your own templates?

Neil

I'm having the same problems.. How did you solved this issue?

Thijs

Hi!

I diddn't realy dug into the problem. We were just trying the functionalitly to see how we can advise our customers on this topic. So I can't say I fixed the problem.Good luck!

Dennis

Hi all,

 this post may be useful: http://our.umbraco.org/forum/using/ui-questions/24642-Skin-button-not-showing-in-UI if you didn't solve the problem in the meanwhile.

 Robert

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