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8/20/2010 2:51 PM
 
Lindsay Phillips

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I recently developed a very flexible skin that I'd like to use on multiple child portals that are almost identical, except for each being for a particular city.  For example: abc.com/newyork or abc.com/boston, etc.  The only problem I've hit is the client wants some static links in the bottom corner, like "Contact Us", that dynamically points to the proper page for that city.  I can't make a separate skin for each city...they are all the same.  

Is there a way to dynamically change the URL that hardcoded link in the skin points to?  Right now, I just put <a href="/ContactUs.aspx"> but it always sends me to the parent portal's page abc.com/ContactUs.aspx and NOT the one for the city's portal that I'm currently viewing...for example abc.com/boston/ContactUs.aspx.  I tried the "~" thing, but that didn't work either.  Am I just missing something really obvious?
 
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8/20/2010 3:05 PM
 
Scott Willhite


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Dynamic functionality in skins is usually provided by implementing a "skin object". This is basically a module which does not have a UI, but performs some computations and displays something. For example, presenting information about the logged in user. In this case, you'd want a skin object which figured out the appropriate link for the portal and returned that. Do you have any programming resources who could do this for you? Perhaps a generous community member would create a Forge project with a simple free skin object for you?

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8/20/2010 3:24 PM
 
Lindsay Phillips

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I just tried this:  <a href="<%=PortalSettings.PortalAlias.HTTPAlias%>/ContactUs.aspx">Contact Us</a>  but it gave me a weird URL like abc.com/tabname/abc.com/contactus.aspx.  I think I'm on the right track though.
 
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8/20/2010 3:52 PM
 
Timo Breumelhof


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I think one of these would help:

<%="http://" & PortalSettings.PortalAlias.HTTPAlias & "/Contact.aspx" %>
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<%="http://" & PortalSettings.PortalAlias.HTTPAlias & "/?TabName=Contact" %>
 
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8/20/2010 3:53 PM
 
Timo Breumelhof


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And.. more examples here: http://dnnskinextensions.codeplex.com...
 
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