Question

I'm having trouble customizing the PatternSkin. According to PatternSkinCustomization a template topic can be created with the following directives to remove the left tool bar.

%TMPL:INCLUDE{"view"}%
%TMPL:DEF{"viewleftbar"}%%TMPL:END%

This topic exists at CustomLeftBarTemplate. To use this template to override the PatternSkin, I understand the VIEW_TEMPLATE variable needs to be set (either in the topic itself or by using 'more topic actions'/'edit settings'). A topic using this template exists at CustomLeftBar.

Basically, this doesn't work. I've even output all variables to insure VIEW_TEMPLATE is indeed being set, but in the end... the left tool bar is not removed. I'm not interested in removing the left tool bar as much as I'm just trying to validate my PatternSkin customization understanding. Currently this understanding seems flawed, so a couple of questions...

1) Does anyone know why my Sandbox example does not work?

2) Has anyone modified the PatternSkin successfully using template topics? If so, could you point me to an example.

Thanks, dB...

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-- DonBowden - 01 Aug 2007

Answer

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-- PeterThoeny - 26 Sep 2007