When I visited the download web page to produce positive downloads are functioning fine, I noticed that skin package is getting far more downloads than container package's download. That is why this query comes to my head.



The idea behind producing a single package is always to make sure newbies may also set up the package appropriately, and after they evaluate the skin. So, I've decided to add two things:

  1. Develop single package for skin and containers.
  2. Generate a web page template (or could be portal template not positive) that may be employed to view the demo.


So, appropriate now I am going to talk about about how I've produced a single package for skin and container. and you have to wait for next post to know how to generate page template that could demonstrate the skin.

Just before starting to manually do the following measures, I've tried discovering if there's an automated method to do this, and currently created a question in dnn skinning forum. Following are manual steps to merge two different skin and container packages to single 1.

  1. Create separate packages for skin and containers using Create Package Wizard.
  2. Copy the packages from dnn's Install folder to a new folder.
  3. Create a New folder called Package and paste all files of skins and containers to a package folder.
  4. Make sure you don't have common name for any file in skin/container's package. Otherwise step 3 will overwrite it.
  5. Open container's .dnn file and copy following section:
     
    <package name="Multiflex5.4" type="Container" version="0.0.4">
...
</package>
  6. Open .dnn file for skin and paste the it before </packages> tag.
  7. Remove .dnn file for container
  8. Press Cnrl + A to select all files, right click > Send To > Compressed (Zipped) folder
  9. Rename the newly created Zip file to your desired name.
  10. Test it by installing it to new instance of DNN (or change the skin and container names to install it to the existing installation)

Hope this will be helpfull

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