Question

I am a newbie to TWiki and I have just installed it on my Mac laptop. As a newbie, I am playing with lots of stuff and in that playing I installed the NatSkin, but in the NatSkinBrower I am seeing the variable names rather then the data. I'm pretty sure this problem is cause by a permission misconfuration, but I am stuck on where to start looking. All the files are owned by the CGI user (www) and should be readable/writible where needed. If anyone has an idea I would really appreciate the help. Thanks -- Sue

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-- SusanCaskey - 02 Mar 2006

Answer

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Have you installed the other things NatSkin needs? It sounds like you've just installed the skin itself. It mentions near the bottom of the skin page ( Plugin Info heading) that it needs NatSkinPlugin (as a dependency). Note that this plugin also has dependencies (see Other Dependencies near the bottom), but you shouldn't need all of them. If you've got TWiki 4.0 ("Dakar", say yes ), then you don't need DakarContrib ('cos it's Dakar already) or SpreadSheetPlugin ('cos that comes standard off the showroom floor). Nat Skin is also helped by having the optional RedDotPlugin which is kind of cool.

-- MarcusLeonard - 03 Mar 2006

The NatSkinPlugin disables itself if the skin is not set to nat. Activate the skin and its plugin by adding ?skin=nat to the url or by setting

    * Set SKIN = nat

-- MichaelDaum - 05 Mar 2006

Hi.. Thanks for the ideas, I do have the NatSkinPlugin and RedDotPlugin, but as you mentioned not the others as I am using 4.0. I have tried setting ?skin=nat, but I just get: %IFSKINSTATETHEN{buttons="on"}% %FISKINSTATE% %IFSKINSTATETHEN{sidebar="left|off"}%

TWiki·TWiki·NatSkinStyleBrowser ...discover TWiki details, and how to start your own site. %IFSKINSTATETHEN{searchbox="top"}% %$nopTMPL:P{"searchbox"}% %FISKINSTATE% %NATLOGON% | Print %USERACTIONS% %$nopWEBCOMPONENT{"WebButtons"}% %IFSKINSTATETHEN{sidebar="left"}% %FISKINSTATE% %IFSKINSTATETHEN{sidebar="right"}% %FISKINSTATE% %FISKINSTATE%

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Any other ideas?

Thanks -- Sue

-- SusanCaskey - 06 Mar 2006

Maybe you just didn't enable the NatSkinPlugin using http://your.site/...bin/configure in the Plugins section.

-- MichaelDaum - 06 Mar 2006

I think that fixed it, or rather it did fix it, but I did have those both clicked enabled, and they were viewable as installed plugins, but I clicked them off then on again and now life is good.

Thanks Sue

-- SusanCaskey - 06 Mar 2006

I spoke too soon. The Natskin is working about 90% or so, but the sidebar and the title bar are still not running as expected. Here is a quick snip from the sidebar: Trash.Main %FORMATLIST{"IntlBTR Main TWiki" exclude="Trash.Main|TWiki|Trash.Sandbox|User|TestCases|Trash" split=" " separator="$n" format=" $percntWEBLINK{\"$1\"}$percnt "}%

I have double checked the permissions on all the nat files and they are owned by 'www' (the web user on my system).

Here are my installed plugins (in load order): SpreadSheetPlugin CommentPlugin EditTablePlugin InterwikiPlugin NatSkinPlugin PreferencesPlugin RedDotPlugin RenderListPlugin SlideShowPlugin SmiliesPlugin TablePlugin WysiwygPlugin

They all run without listing any errors.

-- SusanCaskey - 06 Mar 2006

The FilterPlugin is missing.

-- MichaelDaum - 07 Mar 2006

You rock! That fixed that problem. I am seeing some %IFDEGINEDTHEN... in my browser heading, so I did also need to install your ifdefined plugin. Thanks -- Sue

-- SusanCaskey - 08 Mar 2006