DotNetNuke Tokens: Some tricks for getting more than SkinPath in your skin.

Hi Alex,
That one is a little harder.  It sounded very familiar though, so I did a google search and came up with a thread I had responded to here:
http://www.snapsis.com/DotNetNuke/Support/tabid/560/forumid/11/tpage/1/view/topic/postid/6193/Default.aspx#6206

That one looks like it didn't really get answered though, so here's what I think you want:

<scriptrunat="server">
    Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

       Dim oTabController As New TabController
       dnnMENU.StartTabId = oTabController.GetTabByName("Store", Null.NullInteger).TabId

    End Sub
</script>

If you have some other Id for your menu then use that instead of dnnMenu, and if you have more than one you can just put another line like this:

<scriptrunat="server">
    Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

       Dim oTabController As New TabController
       mySolpartMenu1.StartTabId = oTabController.GetTabByName("Store", PortalSettings.PortalId).TabId
       mySolpartMenu2.StartTabId = oTabController.GetTabByName("Other", PortalSettings.PortalId).TabId

    End Sub
</script>

Hey ,

that's a great solution and works lika a charm for me. And the best: no development environment setup needed!

thnaks thanks thanks

Alex

Hi Rob,

This is how you get the current Alias for the portal:

<%= CType(HttpContext.Current.Items("PortalSettings"),PortalSettings).PortalAlias.HTTPAlias %>

and thank you very much for that!

Rob

<tdclass='<%= IIF(PortalSettings.ActiveTab.TabName = "Home", "MenuTDBlack", "MenuTD") %>'>

<br><br><tdclass='Menu <%= Replace(PortalSettings.ActiveTab.TabName," ","") %>'><br><br>

Hello,

Ok, here's one.

I want to take the icon that you can select in the page settings and display that image directly in the skin rather than the menu. - The image that I will be selecting will be large and it will be for a banner image for the page. - I'm trying this method as it will allow the client to easily select a new banner image for each page.

I've been experimenting with changing the bannerimage section into a content pane, but when you log in it sends the layout all over the place, so the best solution is to select the image to display on the page settings.

So, is it possible to display the page icon from the page settings within a skin page?

Thanks for any tips, cheers,

Lee

Hi Lee,

Try this:

src="<%=PortalSettings.ActiveTab.IconFile%>"

Hi John,

Great, thanks, nearly there. - This gives me the name of the image file, but what I also need is the exact location of the file so the client can upload these images to any location within their portal.

How are you finding out this info, is there a certain area in the source code where you can track each of these elements?

Thanks,

Lee

If they upload a file then it will probably be in their Home Directory ( portals/0, portals/1, etc.).

PortalSettings.HomeDirectory is how you get that folder.

I get the stuff in this thread mostly from just having done something simular in the past, but you can use the object browser in Visual Studio to browse the PortalSettings object and find out everything it offers.

Thanks John

Is there a way to show only Login or UserName and not show "Register" at all in the User token??

Thank you, Tom

Hi Tom,

For the Search Box, you can change it's look using normal CSS.
Look towards the end of this thread for some ideas on styling the Search Box.
DNN 4.5.2 Web and Site Search radio buttons 

Check out this post for the User SkinObject modifications.
Changing the User SkinObject to Display UserName instead of FirstName LastName in DotNetNuke