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6/29/2006 12:47 AM
 
Kevin Parker

www.administerweb.com
Joined: 6/5/2006
Posts: 10

I am learning to skin my DNN4 sites and having a great time. However, we programmers are prone to make a mistake here and there with our code, and when a skin is concerned, it can be disastrous (yes, I know: I could have just previewed it; but I've been working on this skin a while and thought my minor tweak would not crash the application!).  Here's the message I got after reparsing my skin with a few more entries in the skin.xml file (I'm working on the SolPartMenu):

An error has occurred.
DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.PageLoadException: Conversion from string "100%" to type 'Decimal' is not valid. ---> System.InvalidCastException: Conversion from string "100%" to type 'Decimal' is not valid. at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToDecimal(String Value, NumberFormatInfo NumberFormat) at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToDecimal(String Value) at DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.NavObjectBase.AssignControlProperties() at DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.NavObjectBase.InitializeNavControl(Control objParent, String strDefaultProvider) at DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.Controls.SolPartMenu.OnInit(EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) at System.Web.UI.Control.AddedControl(Control control, Int32 index) at System.Web.UI.ControlCollection.Add(Control child) at DotNetNuke.Framework.DefaultPage.Page_Init(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.Control.OnInit(EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.Page.OnInit(EventArgs e) at DotNetNuke.Framework.PageBase.OnInit(EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

I wish there was an easy way to go back and load the default skin when it is not working like this. Maybe it could be a URL like: http://server/dnnsite/Default.aspx?safemode

Just an idea.  I know how to go in and manually fix this on my local server (which is why I've not published my skin to my host yet!).
 
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6/29/2006 2:48 AM
 
Nina M


www.berrydigital.com.au
Joined: 1/23/2004
Posts: 1961

You would have to use ftp to reset it - or log in as host, access the portal from the host/portal area, click the portal settings and in the admin section change the skin there and refresh the page.

That is of course if you didn't do a double boo boo and apply to the whole site including admin pages

Nina Meiers

Nina Meiers My Little Website
If it's on DNN, I fix, build, deploy, support,skin, host, design, consult, implement, integrate and done since 2003.
Who am I? Just a city chic, having a crack at organic berry farming.. and creating awesome websites.
 
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