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OBD
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06/11/2007 9:12 PM
Hi John, I saw you'd answered a similar post in a very helpful way on the DNN forum, No backup (another fight with equipment and software, with me on the losing end). I griped to the skin vendor about no print icons on the containers I'd bought. He sent me a new skin. When I installed it today. I could see the containers. I applied a container to a module. No print icon (hmmm) . Let me see if I actually selected the right skin. I did, so I applied the container again. Whoops, no web. White on white. It was wierd to watch it happen: one by one the containers vanished, but it was over in seconds. http://www.aoptotalsolutions.com The page downloads and knows its name is Home. In the view source, the Metadata's there, Modules are there. Tables are there. Nothing is visible as far as content. No graphics, no text, no hover overs, no pointy fingers. What could possibly have caused this to happen? I'm completely flummoxed, and I'd appreciate your help.

John Mitchell
Posts:3276

06/11/2007 9:32 PM
Wow! I have never seen that before. It looks like you have a skin with absolutley no content. Let me as Nina Meiers to take a look, she may know this one since it appears to be a skin issue.

nina
Posts:41

06/11/2007 9:39 PM
Hi John - yes I had a look at the source code and I think that what's happened here is the container has been uploaded as a skin and applied. DNN doesn't stop you from installing a skin as a container - both have to have 'content panes' for content to be loaded, so you might not even get a warning. Fortunately as horrific as it looks, it's a quick fix - but you'll need ftp access. What you have to do is rename the skin file you have that works, to the container name you uploaded and overwrite it, and CTRL refresh the page. I'm not 100% sure, but 99.9% sure this is the case as I've done it before myself. Packaging skins is done different ways by skinning professionals, and alas, you've fallen victim to the 'lazy skinners' approach to packaging skins and sending them out the door. Try that and see how it goes.. No matter how horrible a skin may make a page look, it cannot ruin your DNN database and site. I think I might write a blog about the importance of 'testing' skins. Hope this helps. Nina [/quote]

Nina http://www.xd.com.au http://www.skincovered.com ....Make sure you last words are sweet.. you never know when you have to eat them...

OBD
Posts:3

06/12/2007 6:27 AM
Thanks John and Nina, I think I understand. I didn't get a skin, but a container. I guess I never installed just a container file before and just assumed it was a skin containing containers. I'll let you know what happens next.

OBD
Posts:3

06/12/2007 9:42 AM
Dr. Nina, Thank you for your diagnosis and treatment. I renamed the old skin folder to the new container folder name, and my content and pages all reappeared. This actually brought tears to my eyes. Thank you. The skin displayed is the original DNN Blue but with the original purchased containers, but I think I can just shuffle some things around and it'll be OK. I had feared I'd have to go buy 12 VB.NET books, 4 DNN books, and spend another 20,000 hours trying to learn programming !! I found out long, long ago that I can perform music, but I don't write very good songs.

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