The dashboard is the content that's displayed in the main panel when you click on a root node in a section ie. content, media, settings, developer etc. Do you not see anything when you click on these nodes?

You can see what dashboards are enabled in the /config/Dashboard.config file. If you install a new 4.7 website it should look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> 
<dashBoard>
  <section alias="StartupSettingsDashboardSection">
    <areas>
      <area>settings</area>
    </areas>
    <tab caption="Get Started">
      <control showOnce="true" addPanel="true" panelCaption="">
        /umbraco/dashboard/settingsdashboardintro.ascx
      </control>
      <control showOnce="true" addPanel="true" panelCaption="">
        /umbraco/dashboard/settingsdashboardvideos.ascx
      </control>
    </tab>
  </section>

  <section alias="StartupDeveloperDashboardSection">
    <areas>
      <area>developer</area>
    </areas>
    <tab caption="Get Started">
      <control showOnce="true" addPanel="true" panelCaption="">
        /umbraco/dashboard/developerdashboardintro.ascx
      </control>
      <control showOnce="true" addPanel="true" panelCaption="">
        /umbraco/dashboard/developerdashboardvideos.ascx
      </control>
    </tab>
  </section>

  <section alias="StartupMediaDashboardSection">
    <areas>
      <area>media</area>
    </areas>
    <tab caption="Get Started">
      <control showOnce="true" addPanel="true" panelCaption="">
        /umbraco/dashboard/mediadashboardintro.ascx
      </control>
      <control showOnce="true" addPanel="true" panelCaption="">
        /umbraco/dashboard/desktopmediauploader.ascx
      </control>
      <control showOnce="true" addPanel="true" panelCaption="">
        /umbraco/dashboard/mediadashboardvideos.ascx
      </control>
    </tab>
  </section>

  <section alias="StartupDashboardSection">
    <access>
      <deny>translator</deny>
    </access>
    <areas>
      <area>content</area>
    </areas>
    <tab caption="Get Started">
      <control showOnce="true" addPanel="true" panelCaption="">
        /umbraco/dashboard/startupdashboardintro.ascx
      </control>
      <control showOnce="true" addPanel="true" panelCaption="">
        /umbraco/dashboard/startupdashboardkits.ascx
      </control>
      <control showOnce="true" addPanel="true" panelCaption="">
        /umbraco/dashboard/startupdashboardvideos.ascx
      </control>
    </tab>
    <tab caption="Last Edits">
      <control>/umbraco/dashboard/latestEdits.ascx</control>
    </tab>
    <tab caption="Change Password">
      <control addPanel="true">/umbraco/dashboard/changepassword.ascx</control>
    </tab>
  </section>

  <section alias="StartupMemberDashboardSection">
    <areas>
      <area>member</area>
    </areas>
    <tab caption="Get Started">
      <control showOnce="true" addPanel="true" panelCaption="">
        /umbraco/dashboard/membersdashboardintro.ascx
      </control>
      <control showOnce="true" addPanel="true" panelCaption="">
        /umbraco/members/membersearch.ascx
      </control>
      <control showOnce="true" addPanel="true" panelCaption="">
        /umbraco/dashboard/membersdashboardvideos.ascx
      </control>
    </tab>
  </section>
</dashBoard>

Jeroen

Hi

What I see it's actually the following... Is it what i'm supposed to see? 

Regads

@Jeroen:

In fact I see the same plus:

   <section alias="uGoLiveDashboardSection">
    <areas>
      <area>developer</area>
    </areas>
    <tab caption="uGoLive Checklist">
      <control>/umbraco/plugins/uGoLive/Dashboard.ascx</control>
    </tab>
  </section>

But I don't see anything related to a "Skin dashboard"

Yes that's what you're supposed to see. That is the dashboard which you can change. More info about it can be found here: http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/files-and-folders/dashboardconfig.

Jeroen

Thanks for your reply, but that doesn't explains why the skinning documentation says it's possible to change the skin from a dashboard that is nowhere to be seen.

Regards

Vlax

Well the dashboard is nothing but a usercontrol. You have full control over how it looks and works. Perhaps that's what they mean.

Jeroen

You can skin it by using the Umbraco controls. Here is an example: http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/umbraco-best-practices/standard-ui-controls/umbracouicontrols-page-samples

Jeroen

I'm here looking for the same thing that Vlax was asking about a year ago. I've installed Umbraco on Azure web sites using the default package, used the business starter pack and discovered that once you install a skin, there is no obvious way to change it back to what it was before.

On further investigation it seems you can uninstall all the skins and then re-install just the one you are interested in.

Suggestions for the  Packages -> Install Skin page

1. Show the name of each skin and whether it is already installed next to its name
2. Add an option to activate a skin
3. Add option to remove an inactive skin.

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