Comments on: Adammer releases Greytness, a free DNN skin

By: Bob Hanson

Bob Hanson — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:17:25 +0000

Greytness 2.5 and DNN 6 are a great combo. Nice job on the fixes.

By: Hany Darwish

Hany Darwish — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:30:36 +0000

GREYTNESS is a great skin and it looks like there is more to share about the menu template feature could you share this information with us as i think that all of us are interested to learn more about the menu customization feature using the template property

thanks very much for the professional free skin very clean and pro code

By: Dewey

Dewey — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:12:29 +0000

@Adam Humphrey That fixed it. Thanks, Adam.

By: Adam Humphrey

Adam Humphrey — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 23:51:37 +0000

@ Dewey, The most likely cause is the removal of the skins HTML comment:
Adammer menu technology licensed through http://www.snapsis.com

Due our licensing terms this HTML comment needs to be part of the *.ascx file in order to enable the NavMenu. Let me know if you’re still having problems with the NavMenu after adding the HTML comment back to the skin or if this fix worked for you.

By: Dewey

Dewey — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 23:39:21 +0000

My NavMenu is not showing anymore. When I view the HTML source there is no rendering of the menu. I’m not sure what caused it to not show, but there has been no DNN upgrade to cause this. What else can I look for?

By: Bob H.

Bob H. — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:04:07 +0000

@ Adam Humphrey
Correction: You were correct; right on the money. My db had some bonkers stuff in it. A couple of negative numbers for order and ‘gaps’ in levels (like a level 1 with its sub items as level 4). One had a 5 digit number in one field…

Thanks so much.

By: Bob H.

Bob H. — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 02:56:52 +0000

@ Adam Humphrey I believe you are correct. I have a fresh/virgin 5.5.1 site and installed Greytness and cannot duplicate the problem there. Import/Export Portal is new to me. Will try.

By: Adam Humphrey

Adam Humphrey — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:04:19 +0000

@Bob, It sounds like something went awry with your upgrade. I have seen one other person who had an issues similar to this after an upgrade. It may be that the DNN database didn’t get upgraded appropriately for menu hierarchy. And since our skins use a custom SEO menu module, it’s important that the database have the correct data with regards to menu item hierarchy.

Perhaps you can try a fresh DNN install and Use the Export/Import Portal Template feature to get this issue resolved.

FYI: (Included to help you understand our menu structure but not a fix for the issues your having)
The Greytness skin is specifically designed to support 0-3 menu levels. 0 = top level, 1 = sub page(s), 2 = sub sub page(s), 3 = sub sub sub page(s)

Example:
Home (level 0)
…Page 1 (level 1)
……Page 2 (level 2)
………Page 3 (level 3)
…………Page 4 (level 4)

The menu will display levels 0-3 but not level 4. If you want to enable support for additional levels you will need to change the appropriate .ascx skin file. Look for the tag and change the Level property to something other than Level=”0-3″. You will also need to adjust the CSS to support the additional levels as well.

You should also notice the ExcludeTabs=”Admin,Host” in the tag. Greytness removed the Admin and Host menu items because they are no longer needed due to DNN 5.x displaying these links at the top of the page. They were just taking up space.

If you’re still having issues please use our contact form to open a support ticket.

By: Bob H.

Bob H. — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:19:36 +0000

Also, HOST and ADMIN menu items/dropdowns do not appear at all on the menu bar. I believe this to be the same problem as the ‘only one root item’ above, since they appear as ‘root’ items on the ‘Pages’ hierarchy.

By: Bob H.

Bob H. — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:11:44 +0000

@ Adam Humphrey

Sure can. I can send you a link so you can see it on my screen if need be, as well.

Pages could not go beyond two tiers; the third tier disappeared from the menus.

For simplicity call the main menu bar the ‘root’ hierarchy. There could only be one item [Home, for instance] in the ‘root’ level. I had to make peers of that one item sub-pages on the settings to have them appear as peers on the menu bar. Changes to ‘none specified’ using Settings would not be saved.

Using the ‘Pages’ function/module under Admin role got things so screwed up I had to punt totally; I had to load another skin to ‘recover’. This one you might have to see to believe.

There is a chance it is my site as I just went through a nightmare upgrade, which is why I went to Greytness to begin with… Other skins work OK, though.