Basic Use. Filling required fields

by Volodymyr Rudnytskyy last modified Dec 30, 2008 03:05 PM
Using Plone Skin Dump for basic skin product creation

Clicking the 'qPloneSkinDump' link will bring you to the qPloneSkinDump configlet page. When you finish filling the form press 'Save' button. File-system Plone skin product will be generated. You will find it next to other Plone products in '/Data/Products' directory. After Zope restart you can use your generated Plone skin product on any Plone 2.1 site. Just install it using Quick Installer or 'Add/Remove Products' in Plone Site Setup.
Below is information on filling required fields.

ZMI section

ZMI related information

  • Source skin folder
    You developed your Plone skin. It is located into single layer of portal_skins tool. If it is 'custom' folder, you can leave default value. Or provide the one that contains your skin. For instance your skin is in 'MySkinLayer', put the 'MySkinLayer' in the field.
  • Input ZMI Base Skin Name
    Provide the base skin that your skin is built upon in the field. Or leave default 'Plone Tableless'. Other possible value is 'Plone Default' that should be used if corresponding skin was used as base.

 

File system section

File system related fields

  • Skin's name for new product
    This is the 'ID' of the skin layer which will be added to the user's Plone site after installing your generated product in it. Skin folder which contains all skin related files will have the same ID. Just make sure your ID is in lowercase, it starts from alphabetical character followed with alphanumeric combination.

  • Product name
    This is the 'ID' of your Plone skin product in the file system. This name will appear in the products listing in the 'Add/Remove products' page. Name may use lowercase and uppercase letters, should start with alphabetical character following with an alphanumeric combination.