Hi, I tried two skins with the same edits. I only changed the file companylogo.vm and added a file logo-company.png. The skin.properties file points to flamingo as parent.
In one skin folder I copied all of the flamingo files and edited as described. If I change the skin for the wiki everything is as expected and the changes show up with the newly set skin. The other skin folder only has the edited files _ companylogo.vm _ logo-company.png _ skin.properties If I switch to this skin, tested changing it only for one page, I see an error "You are not allowed to view this page or perform this action" after pressing save. If I try to switch to the changed page from the wiki frontend, I only see a blank page. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Why is there no inheritance? Regards, sthag Interaktionsweise [https://interaktionsweise.de] · ne...@interaktionsweise.de [mailto:ne...@interaktionsweise.de] Am 02.05.2017 10:32:23 schrieb Thomas Mortagne <thomas.morta...@xwiki.com>: On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Interaktionsweise wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to create a new skin. I followed the section Skins within the > Developer's Guide and also Platform Features / Skins. > The article "How to create a new skin" says to copy the whole colibri (should > be flamingo by now) skin folder and make an example change. Then there is a > part about skin.properties. The property "parent" indicates a skin to inherit > from. It says that it always has a value, even if I don't explicitly enter > one for myself it will inherit from WAR or whatever is configured in > "xwiki.defaultbaseskin". > Does that mean I don't have to copy the whole flamingo folder if I reference > flamingo as "parent"? This way I could only create a custom named folder > within the xwiki/skins folder with the skin.properties file and for example a > logo.png file which would replace the flamingo logo.png file. Yes you can inherit from Flamingo, no need to duplicate it if you just want to customize some templates only. > I don't understand the behavior and the functionality of this inheriting and > parent child relation of skins from the articles in the documentation. Why > have a parent if I copy the whole skin folder anyways? > > Regards, > sthag -- Thomas Mortagne
