[Zope-CMF] Customize skins problem

Norman Khine khine@btinternet.com
Sat, 1 Sep 2001 23:02:47 +0100


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.


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