I have a DNN 7.3.4 install that has one parent portal and 30 child portals.  The DNN Framework has been upgraded several times and started as a DNN 5.x website.

Somewhere along the line, the Settings for the Default Page Template Folder and the Default Page Template has been lost for the parent portal only.  This previously worked, although I don't know when it got broken.

On the parent portal, when I "Add New Page" the "Template Folder" dropdown is not initially set to "Templates" and instead shows "Select A Folder".  As a result, the "Page Template" dropdown is empty. 

All other child portals that I have reviewed, the Template Folder is set to Templates and the Page Template is set to Default as normal.

I have checked that the Template folder exists and has a valid Default.page.template file.  I checked the folder permissions (which shouldn't matter for me as an admin) and have done a full File Re-Sync on the portal.

I've also searched the DNN database and cannot seem to find where these settings are stored.

How can I reconnect these default settings for a portal?

if you mean the addpage dialog from the control panel then the relevant code looks like this:

ArrayList templateFiles = Globals.GetFileList(PortalSettings.PortalId, "page.template", false, "Templates/");

in other words on a default install it would look in Portals\0\Templates

it then removes the ".page.template" portion to get the template names so the "Default.page.template" becomes "Default" -the code then checks (case-sensitive it seems) if the template is called "Default" and if so selects it

 

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not a problem - note: I just fixed an issue around admin permissions on portals installed via the blank portal template, if you used that template then it may be the root cause of your problem

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