My question is this.  Is there a way, using code in the skin to pragmatically set the starttabid for a menu item to a page name based on that name being in the DB?

For example, If I know that "store" is in the DB as a page/Tab, is there a way to retrieve that TabId from the DB and use it in the skin.

Reason for it's use:  To enable the use of a reproducible site template so a particular skin's menu item will always work based on that TabId's name not changing.

Hope this is clear.

Clay

Hi John,

Actually I'm trying to be a little more creative than just setting a link in the skin.  What I am trying to do is use SolPart, setting the TabID to the name of a page I already know.

In my simplistic view, it would be TabID=tabname.  Something like this.
<dnn:SOLPARTMENU runat="server" id="dnnSOLPARTMENU" cleardefaults="true" StartTabID= (/?tabname=Store) />

Problem is that I know that "StartTabID= (/?tabname=Store)" won't work in the string.  Or will it?

The problem with using StartTabID in a skin is that it is not portable to other sites unless that value is reset for each use.  What I am trying to do is create a skin where that value is dynamically generated no matter what site uses the Skin. Then, all I need to do is create the base page with that name, set all the "children" I want and generate a template to create sites using that page name, and then I can use that as often as I like.

Clay

You would need to put some code into your skin that creates a TabController then gets the proper TabInfo object, then assigns the ID of the tab to the Solpart menu control outside of the declaration for the control.

I'll work this up and post a new Tip as a more advanced way of getting Tab information in your skin.