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Re: SolPart Menu root separator?

timrolands — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:23:56 GMT

Oh, uh, yeah ... that would be DNN 2.0.4. Forgot about that. I am running DNN 2.1.2 everywhere else, but on this project I am limited to 2.0.4.

So the separator simply will not work at all in DNN 2.0.4, correct?

Thanks for clearing that up, Jon.

Re: SolPart Menu root separator?

jhenning — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:36:55 GMT

What version of DNN are you using?

Looking at your skin, either you don't have the right one applied or you have an old version of DNN (prior to 2.1.2).

At a bare minimum you should be able to do a view source on your page and find a reference to the image (TabLWhite.gif). I see no matching text.

Re: SolPart Menu root separator?

timrolands — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:12:47 GMT

Good tip. This sounded like it was right on the money, because I did use "display: none" on a number of default classes. Turned the display back on for all of them and still nothing. I would swear it's a caching issue, but other style sheet changes show up.

Has anyone else actually used a simple separator like a "|" or a "/" in a skin? If so, can you share your code? -- just snippets even? Please?

Thanks to all for giving this your attention. I really appreciate your efforts to help me.

Re: SolPart Menu root separator?

docluv — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 23:55:47 GMT

This has been my biggest issue with this, one of the classes is set to display:none; in the style sheet. I can not remember which class it is, but look for that in your style sheet.

Re: SolPart Menu root separator?

timrolands — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:25:23 GMT

Yes, and double-checked everything again -- in the processed ascx and css files. Image paths are correct, and image files are where they are supposed to be.

Re: SolPart Menu root separator?

hooligannes97 — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:57:16 GMT

Did you try to reparse the skin?

Re: SolPart Menu root separator?

timrolands — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:51:08 GMT

Oh, I did that. Logged in as host and used the admin file manager to upload the skin. It is installed under that portal rather than the default global folder.

Re: SolPart Menu root separator?

hooligannes97 — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:38:17 GMT

What Jon meant was that you need to upload the skin to the portal dir and not to the host dir.

Re: SolPart Menu root separator?

timrolands — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:07:39 GMT

That spmenu.js file was updated on my development and staging systems but never made it out to the production system. Thanks for catching that. I have replaced the file with the newer version and double-checked the DLLs, which were indeed version 1.4.

Also, I was logged in as host when I uploaded and applied the skin. Double-checked the paths in the uploaded skin's ascx and verified location of skin graphics. Everything looks in order.

Still no tabs.

Re: SolPart Menu root separator?

jhenning — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:25:32 GMT

1st, your spmenu.js script file is not matched up with 1.4 (it is the one for 1.3 - see the header)

2nd I am guessing you didn't install the skin as the host. This is something that I noted is a shortcoming in the skin design. The image paths for the tabs doesn't get replaced.

Re: SolPart Menu root separator?

timrolands — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:14:04 GMT

FWIW, when I install the SolpartSkin and assign the tabs skin, I don't get the tabs. You can see it here: http://bl.fwpublications.com/Default.aspx?tabid=145.

I am using 1.4. That's the latest version of the menu, right?

Re: SolPart Menu root separator?

timrolands — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:07:00 GMT

Tried it. Still nothing. My style rule was a little different but very basic. It just seems like there's something blocking SolPart from interpreting the attributes or something. I just don't know what's going on. It *should* be working!

Thanks for trying. Any more ideas? Jon?

Re: SolPart Menu root separator?

xddg — Sat, 13 Nov 2004 05:59:59 GMT

Because I work in ASCX mode only - if you apply this to the following pages it will work -

Make sure this is in menu control code.

<dnn:MENU runat="server" id="dnnMENU" separator=" | " separatorcssclass="MySeparator" separatecss="true"/>

This is required in the CSS for nice spacing between the text -

.MySeparator {
font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Trebuchet MS;
font-size: 9pt;
font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal;
color: white;
padding-right: 4px;
padding-left: 4px;
font-size: 10px;
cursor: pointer;
cursor: hand;
}

See that how that goes - I have take this from a commercial skin I've just done with great results.

Nina Meiers

Re: SolPart Menu root separator?

timrolands — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 22:17:43 GMT

Thanks for the tip, but that still doesn't work.

Re: SolPart Menu root separator?

hooligannes97 — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 22:09:26 GMT

Try doing it directly in the ascx file for your skin. Just add it as a property to the menu skin object. separator="/"