Thread: Skin Switching Based on Entity and Topics

I'd like to accomplish the following:

If a page's parent entity is category, then use template (or skin #).

And the following:

If the topic page is t-birthday.aspx, then use template (or skin #).

Is something like this easily doable?

Thanks in advance.

Do you want to change the template if it is only a certain category or a certain template?

In either case you can override the routine OverrideTemplate in the pages that render topic and categories (found in web.config).

Code:

<add name="Category" url="c-{CategoryID}-{SEName}.aspx" virtualPath="~/showcategory.aspx" checkPhysicalUrlAccess="false" />
<add name="Topic" url="t-{Topic}.aspx" virtualPath="~/driver.aspx" checkPhysicalUrlAccess="false" />

In the OverrideTemplate routine you can use logic to detect which category or topic you are looking at and then change the template based on that.

Otherwise you can use a method like the one discussed here: http://forums.aspdotnetstorefront.co...ad.php?t=22665