Cannot get admin menu to show after applying Artisteer3 skin

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8/8/2011 5:57:38 AM
john_scvo
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Cannot get admin menu to show after applying Artisteer3 skin

Hi

My first serious attempt to work with a skin developed in Artisteer 3.0.0.39952  - using the latest Mojoportal Code in VS2010 Pro.

Following the instructions for using the export from Artisteer I have successfully skinned my site using the   artisteer-30verticalmenu1 skin as the basis as I have the main horizontal menu under the header and the vertical section menus in the left of 3 columns. 

Initially it just needed some fiddling about but when I had reached the point where the header, footer and horizontal menu were all looking good I found I no longer have the MoJo Portal menu so I cannot get on with building up the menus. The code for the admin menu is still in my theme's layout.master.

I am just running on the VS web server for now.

The boss has signed up for this job with what looks like a very tight schedule for me and I just cannot get going. Any clues very welcome - will contribute beer vouchers for an answer!

Really like MoJo and am looking forward to getting this site working.

Regards

John Cunningham

8/8/2011 6:41:55 AM
Joe Audette
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Re: Cannot get admin menu to show after applying Artisteer3 skin

Hi John,

Many thanks for the beers! Very much appreciated!

I'm not entirely clear what you mean by the mojoportal menu. Are you talking about the main site menu, the administration and edit links? Can you clarify.

If you're still logged in as admin I would check the system log to see if any related errors might be getting logged. Even if the admin links are not showing as long as you are logged in as admin you should be able to navigate directly to /Admin/ServerLog.aspx

If you're working from the source code repository I recommend pull the latest changes with Tortosie HG, then do Tortoise hg > update to apply the latest changes to your working copy, then rebuild your solution and visit /Setup/Default.aspx again and see if that resolves it.

Hope that helps,

Joe

8/8/2011 6:56:39 AM
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Re: Cannot get admin menu to show after applying Artisteer3 skin

Yes its the mojo menu that I cannot get back to. When I was working on the integration of my Artisteer's Index.html with my skin's layout.master on friday it was OK but I hadn't got all the tags right. Fixed the layout.master this morning and it looks just fine when I run in debug mode - EXCEPT I have no way to log in. I think I'm missing something really simple and obvious! How should I be logging in?

Not I am reskinning Site/1.

 

Cheers

John

8/8/2011 7:05:42 AM
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Re: Cannot get admin menu to show after applying Artisteer3 skin

You must have either removed the login link from your layout.master or you have a malformed or missing closing tag that prevents it from loading, or you have something in your css that makes the link invisible such as white text on a white background for example.

You can navigate directly to the login page at /Secure/Login.aspx

Hope that helps,

Joe

8/8/2011 7:25:54 AM
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Re: Cannot get admin menu to show after applying Artisteer3 skin

Doh! Obvious when you know! Thanks Joe - 

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