admin >> skins >> does not allow me to apply a skin to just the portal. even if i check the box to apply only to the portal and deselect the box to apply to the admin area, the skin is still applied to both. same applies to the container.

i have read the superuser manual and am following the directions. should i be doing something differently? is this a bug?

Cathal:

I am also experiencing the problem with a skin as it applies to the admin pages. Specifically, I am using 5.6.3 and the Maple skin. I have also read a lot of forum posts about this (old and new) and the whole thing is very confusing. Bug or not, there is a "opportunity for improvement" here related to the application of a skin to the portal and/or admin pages. Part of the confusion arises from the fact that even after you apply a skin to portal only (by removing the tick on the Admin checkbox), when you leave the skin management page and come back, the tick reappears by default on the Admin checkbox. In my opinion, the skin management page is not doing a good job of presenting the current state of affairs as far as what skin is currently applied to what (host/portal/admin).

In addition, and again IMHO, the so called "Admin" category is not well defined as in my experience with the Maple skin, if I go to Admin, User Accounts, everything looks fine, but when you edit one particular user all the controls on the page are centered instead of left justified. Apparently, for the application of the skin, Admin refers to pages that are in Edit mode (identified by having CTL in the URL) and not actually pages that represent an “Admin” function like UserAccounts.aspx or SiteSettings.aspx, the later look fine.

Granted, I may be running into a problem with the Maple skin, and I think I am, but if I try to "deselect" the skin or its container for Admin pages only it does not work the way I expect it to, it remains in effect.

By the way, I also saw an explanation of a change in the way skins are applied to the portal and Admin pages starting with DNN 5, that explanation did not help me. But maybe because of that change, the Skins management interface should have been updated.

Please let me know if I am misunderstanding the whole thing or if you think the problem is the skin.

Thanks.

Carlos

visited the support.dotnetnuke.com site and registered.  no clue on how to log an issue. dug around for while but couldn't find any way to do it.  will be happy to log an issue if someone could tell me how to do so.  also, i went to the "report" link on the support site and was trying to feel my way around.  i clicked on the "group by" dropdown and there are quite a few groups with the word F*CK in them.  not so sure i can take that support forum seriously.