Hello all,

I am in the process of customising the style of a Module for multiple portals; some Portals will use the same set of images for assets such as buttons/background images etc and other Portals will require a different set of images. I have started by overwriting the styles defined in the Module.css within each Portal's Portal.css file.

Initially, I have placed the image assets required for the Module in each Portals Assets directory; however, this means that there are a lot of redundant images for all portals that use the same set of images. I was wondering how other people have shared these images between Portals?

My initial idea was to simply create a SharedAssets folder within the Website/Portals directory and reference the Portal.css to these images to reduce redundancy. Does anyone have any other/better suggestions on how to achieve this?

Thanks for your time, much apprecaited.

Before you get yourself caught in a real mess, I have to ask three questions.

Q1) How many images are you concerned about?
Q2) What is the total size of the images involved?
Q3) Why would you need only some portals to use the same set of images?

It would be extremely difficult to re-architect the functionality of DNN for a few odd portals. There is so much going on internally to manage the portal folder structure that your module will probably end up breaking something else. Thankfully you can use skins to manage the overall look of your portals and reuse them as required.

There is nothing wrong with copying your folder structure from one folder to another and if the portals are very similar you can use the built in security to manage who sees what from a single portal.

Unless I am missing some fundamental issues, you should concentrate on the business case first.

Disk space is cheap; reverse engineering will cost far more time and money.

I hope this is of some help to you.

you may create any folders in /portals/_default, you like. Superusers ("host") may access it via File manager in Host menu.

you might also consider "abusing" an unused portal setting for a value you may use as an directory id to specify the image directory, when combining the path dynamically.