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4/7/2010 8:34 AM

Alberto Velo

Joined: 8/4/2005

Posts: 221

Role-based skinning?

Hello,

for an intranet project on DNN 5 I need to change the skin depending on users' roles: DNN only allows to set skin and container on a per-page basis, and afaik there's nothing to do what I need.

Would it be possible to achieve this without modifying the core, and without passing querystring variables on every page? I know I can pass something like SkinSrc=PATH_TO_SKIN in order to force a skin, but would like to hide this to users. Is that possible?
Any help greatly appreciated, thank you.

Regards,

al.

4/12/2010 10:45 AM

Mitchel Sellers

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Posts: 7846

Re: Role-based skinning?

I have seen this done before using an ascx skin that had server side code in it to swap sections in and out depending on the users role.

It is NOT an elegant solution, but it did work.

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4/12/2010 11:01 AM

Alberto Velo

Joined: 8/4/2005

Posts: 221

Re: Role-based skinning?

Mitchell,

thanks for your answer: I actually hoped in a more elegant solution, but did not find anything yet.

The only other solution I found is this module at Snowcovered, which unfortunately is no good for DNN 5. If anybody knows of a different solution please tell me (I just don't want to modify the core).

4/14/2010 4:24 PM

Dan Houghton

Joined: 1/15/2010

Posts: 6

Re: Role-based skinning?

Hi Alberto,

I have a similiar situation and found a solution. In the page_init of Default.aspx you can insert code like what is below:

            Dim ctlSkin As DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.Skin
            Dim lSkin As String
            Dim lDefaultSkin As DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.Skin

            If ( Condition 1 ) Then
                lDefaultSkin = DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.Skin.GetSkin(Me)
                lSkin = Replace(lDefaultSkin.SkinSrc, " default skin ", " condition 1 skin ")
                ctlSkin = LoadSkin(Me, lSkin)
            ElseIf ( Condition 2 ) Then
                lDefaultSkin = DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.Skin.GetSkin(Me)
                lSkin = Replace(lDefaultSkin.SkinSrc, " default skin ", " condition 2 skin ")
                ctlSkin = LoadSkin(Me, lSkin)
            Else
                ctlSkin = DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.Skin.GetSkin(Me)
            End If

You will also need the function LoadSkin(). ctlSkin will already be initialized so you'll want to take that out, or leave it in. Let me know how this works for you and/or if you need help getting the LoadSkin() function.

4/16/2010 5:47 AM

Alberto Velo

Joined: 8/4/2005

Posts: 221

Re: Role-based skinning?

Paul,

thank you so much for your suggestions: I will sure try this approach as soon as the project starts.

The only thing I don't like is that modifying the core involves re-installing the modification when I'll upgrade DNN - but this looks like it's the cleaner approach to the problem I found 'til now.

As for the LoadSkin function I will try myself, and eventually ask again for your help :)

Best regards,

al.

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