Christopher, So let me see if I understand you correctly. I was already aware of "skins", but completely unaware of "templates". Templates are implemented in Turbine? I've found a few functions relating to templates during a search of the turbine documentation, but I'm not sure if they are what you have mentioned.
Somehow I gather that you are dynamically changing the .css file that the portal uses. Are you doing that with something like setLayoutTemplate() from the runData object? In other words, do you have multiple "default.vm" files each pointing to a different .css file? That could be very useful. Am I way off base here? Thanks, Akihiko --- Christopher Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think Akihiko is running into a similar confusion that we had early on in > using jetspeed: "skins" are implemented inside the Jetspeed portlet screen; > "templates" are implemented inside the Turbine layout (of which the Jetspeed > screen happens to be one component). > > In our case, we wanted "templates" and "skins" of predetermined pairings to > be kept in sync, so we extended the User object to hold a "PortalSkin" > string that identifies the relative path to a directory holding .css and > image files for the vm template, as well as setting the Jetspeed "skin" (in > our case, all portlets get the same skin and we're hiding the skin-chooser > in the customizer from the end-user). We set up a custom portlet that lets > administrators select the PortalSkin to display for their users (someday > we'll probably make this available to end-users, as well). > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Spencer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 1:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Skin support in top.vm > > > Akihiko, > I am not sure I follow the question. In the case of the navigation > bars, their is no skin (i.e. $skin.Name is undefined). You can edit > top.vm to change the look, but I do not know how to access the skin for > the top level portlet. > > What would the "skin" be applied to? > > Is their a reason the "content" is not in a Portlet? > > Paul Spencer > > Akihiko wrote: > > > > Is there any way to access skin information from top.vm, or any other > > navigation for that matter? It seems that skins are associated with > portlets, > > not users which allows some very fine grained skinning. However, I've not > found > > a way to keep the top and bottom navigations in sync with the top level > skin. > > > > Has anyone found a way to do this? > > > > Thanks! > > Akihiko > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. > > http://personals.yahoo.com > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
