Thanks a lot. I found it. It's a question of rewriting the manifest file from DNN 3 format to DNN 5 format. A bit of a puzzle work,

I guess each <folder > will have to become a < package >. I did some reading about the manifest file today. The weard thing is that there is no < folder > for the skin objects in the DNN 3 format. How were those skins objects installed in those times?  (Doesn't matter really, but I will have to check the code to make sure there is no coded procedure for the installation of skin tokens)

Installing those skin objects seems to be the easiest part of the whole procedure. I guess I will have to work with some trial and error: for instance, should the skin objects have their own package or could they be just another component within one package of type="Module"?

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The one-eyed in the land of the blind.

Thanks, The problem was not so much with the skin object package: that was pretty straightforward. I have installed two skin objects within one skin object package. I just hope that was the correct way and won't give problems down the road.

The puzzle work was to install 2 modules as 2 separate packages in one install and correctly add the skin objects to the manifest. The suggestion to create packages from the extension menu of course was also valid for the modules, but there were still some issues: I had to manually add a < sourceFileName > node in many cases but I read about that in a blog.. Then there was some work mixing the 2 manifest files created by the extensions wizard and cleaning double entries. You know: puzzle work

But now I have a version that works. One of the 2 skin objects I had never seen at work. This evening, I saw for the first time the DSPreviewActivator at work. It is a skin object that hides/displays the control panel when clicked.

Almost there. It works now with a skin token and skin.xml file, next step is to see how the skin object reacts on the new syntax for skin objects.  Thanks for the help again, wouldn't have solved it without the wikis.

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The one-eyed in the land of the blind.

 nice :)

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Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

   

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