SID-00295: Pattern Skin Template Changes

Status:	Unanswered	TWiki version:	4.3.1	Perl version:	5.8.5
Category:	CategorySkin	Server OS:	RHEL 4u7	Last update:	16 years ago

I have made minor customizations to two custom sets of skins: one to simply include a new button (for publishing via PublishContrib), and one that hides all buttons and TWiki functions from anonymous users. Both skins work fine in versions through 4.1.2. But now they seem to be broken: the extra button skin loses everything except the main body content, and the anonymous skin crashes with a "Could not find template 'view' " error. Both view templates include a "view.pattern" template include definition.

Please see both view..tmpl* definitions here: http://deesto.pastebin.com/f4551f0e

What has changed, and what can I do to fix the templates?

-- JohnDeStefano - 2009-05-01

Discussion and Answer

For the first skin (adding a button), testing with ?cover=myskin1 works. For the second skin (anonymous, no buttons), testing with ?cover=myskin2 results in a completely blank page, and the publish command crashes with a "template=view" error.

-- JohnDeStefano - 2009-05-01

Help, please? I'd like to upgrade my instance but can't move forward until I understand how things have changed in the skins. Unfortunately, PatternSkinCustomization seems to be outdated (otherwise I don't think my customizations, which use methods described there, would return errors).

-- JohnDeStefano - 2009-05-13

Hmm, the TWiki.PatternSkinCustomization seemed to be out of date. I updated with latest content from TWiki04x03.PatternSkinCustomization.

-- PeterThoeny - 2009-05-13

Thanks Peter. I have to admit that I can't tell the relevant part that has changed, even looking in the history of the document.

In my case, why does the code for one template still work, and the other fails with "Could not find template 'view' ", when both templates begin with the same exact TMPL:INCLUDE call?

-- JohnDeStefano - 2009-05-14

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-- PeterThoeny - 2009-07-05

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