Hi,

I am having difficulty tracking down uptodate information about skinning a DNN installation.(thankfully, I just found the "DNN 5 Skins and skinning" thread which should be helpful) .

I am a DNN newbie, and am looking to create a website that has 3 templates/areas to it.

The sections I am after are:
1) A public website, with its own template (template1) showing only certain web pages.
2) When logged in as a user of type A, certain web pages are shown, and a different template (template2) is shown.
3) When logged in as a user of type B, certain web pages are shown, and a different template (template3) is shown.

How do I go about:
a) configuring the 3 site sections
b) applying the 3 different templates to each section
c) setting up appropriate user privelidges
d) assigning web pages to be displayed in a section

I need the sections to all have dynamic menus (eg add and remove pages to a section at will).

Any advice or pointers to resources would be most appreciated.

There's no quick solution for this,a nd you're probably going to have to read through some of the user guides for DNN, there's one available on the DNN site here: http://www.dotnetnuke.com/tabid/1220/.... The key areas you're looking for are user roles, through this you can create roles that are assigned to page view permissions and to user accounts.

In short, what you'll need to do is:

1. Create a new role for user 1 and user 2
2. Create new pages and set their view permissions to user 1 or user 2
3. When someone regieters to your site, assign them as a user 1 or user 2 role
4. When they login they'll be abel to view the pages reserved for thier user role

I have created a short video on this here: http://www.youtube.com/psdtodnn#p/u/0...

Hope this helps helps to point you in the right direction.

Regards,

Rick.

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I'm not a developer, so not sure if you can setup a way for the skin to change per role, but if you're showing unique pages per role, you could always assign the skin individually on each new page. Not the greatest option with regards to skin managament, but it is an option.

Regards,

Rick.

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