[Zope-CMF] Customize skins problem

[Tres Seaver]

David Kennedy wrote:

> I created another CMF Site and the "pop-up list of folders" now contains 
> the custom folder 


Seems like your 'custom' folder got deleted in the first site
(you can only customize into "normal" folders, not into
FilesystemDirectoryView instances).


> 
> Thanks
> David
> 
> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> 
> On 9/02/01, 13:06:02, David Kennedy <dkennedy@acm.org> wrote regarding RE: 
> [Zope-CMF] Customize skins problem:
> 
> 
> 
>>I navigate to the following location but still the "pop-up list of
>>folders is empty"
>>Filesystem DTML Method at  /dksy-portal 1.1/portal_skins/generic/news_box
>>
> 
>>David
>>
> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> 
>>On 9/01/01, 15:02:47, "Norman Khine" <khine@btinternet.com> wrote regarding
>>RE: [Zope-CMF] Customize skins problem:
>>
> 
> 
>>>on your cmf root, you need to select the portal_skins method, then within
>>>this you will get a number of folders, in the contents tab, choose the
>>>generic and then select the news_box
>>>
> 
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: zope-cmf-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-cmf-admin@zope.org]On Behalf
>>>Of David Kennedy
>>>Sent: 01 September 2001 21:07
>>>To: zope-cmf@zope.org
>>>Subject: [Zope-CMF] Customize skins problem
>>>
> 
> 
>>>I'm trying to customize a skin using the procedure below, but the "pop-up
>>>list of folders" is empty (it doesn't contain custom option)
>>>
> 
>>>My configuration is:
>>>Zope 2.4.0
>>>CMF 1.1
>>>
> 
>>>Any help would be greatly appreciated
>>>
> 
>>>David
>>>
> 
>>>Doing a simple customization
>>>Let's do a relatively simple customization. If you're in a site that
>>>doesn't have any news items yet, the default news box on the Portal's
>>>front page says "No news is no news" by default. Let's say we want to
>>>change that to say "There is nothing new under the sun". The first step
>>>is finding the right thing to customize. Since that news box isn't really
>>>bound to a particular content object, it's safe to assume it's part of
>>>the generic folder. If you look in portal_skins/generic, there are a
>>>couple of DTML Methods with the name news in them. Select news_box and
>>>see what comes up. Instead of the normal DTML Method edit form, you'll
>>>get a grey box with the source code. Above the box is the Customize
>>>action form containing a pop-up list of folders available to customize
>>>to. If you haven't added any new folders to the portal_skins tool, the
>>>default (and only) option should be custom. So, with custom selected,
>>>click Customize. Now you should be on a normal DTML Method editing form.
>>>If you look at the path, you'll notice you're now in
>>>portal_skins/custom/news_box. This is where you can safely start to
>>>customize your own site, independant of whatever changes occur in the
>>>default stylings of the CMF.\


Tres.
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