[Zope-CMF] Different skins in portal subfolders

[Jeffrey P Shell]

On 4/2/01 2:04 PM, "barknech@ph-cip.uni-koeln.de"
<barknech@ph-cip.uni-koeln.de> wrote:

> How can I let a subfolder in a CMF site use a different skin than the
> rest of the portal?
> 
> Say, I had a Zoo site where animals from around the world can discuss their
> favorite food. In this, I want subfolders for discussions of Italian,
> Indian or African food only. Those should be skinned in a style using the
> national colors (e.g red-green-white for all items in the section "italian
> food discussions")
> 
> I don't see the CMF'ish way to do this. I can make skin directories
> "italian", "indian" "african" in the portal_skins, customize here, but how
> do I activate the matching skin in a subfolder?
> 
> Clueless,

You can programmatically set the 'portal_skin' REQUEST variable (or however
you choose to name it on the 'portal_skins' Properties tab).  You might try
setting this as a folder property (through the ZMI) in the specified folder.

ie: set 'portal_skin' property in folder "African" to the string value
'african'.

Jeffrey P Shell, jeffrey@Digicool.com
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