Hi,

I'm trying to create the skin package and manifest for my new skin. I created the new skin extension on the Host Extensions page. However, when I edit the skin in the same place, the option to create skin package is not available. How can I remedy this?

Thanks,
Sid

Which version of DotNetNuke are you using?

We are running DNN 6.x

I'm confused by this, too.

To be quite honest, I've never used this functionality to create a skin.

What I usually do is create the skin by copying an existing skin package or by doing it from scratch. I highly recommend the "How to Build Skins for DotNetNuke 6.x" tutorial and others in our library.

Joe,

When I click the Edit icon next to the skin package on the Host Extensions page, I receive the following error:
AssemblyVersion: 6.1.5
PortalID: 0
PortalName: SOPPLan
UserID: 1
UserName: host
ActiveTabID: 36
ActiveTabName: Extensions
RawURL: /Host/Extensions/tabid/36/ctl/Edit/mid/345/PackageID/63/portalid/0/Default.aspx?popUp=true
AbsoluteURL: /Default.aspx
AbsoluteURLReferrer: http://salesandoperationsplanning.n...fault.aspx
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.46 Safari/536.5
DefaultDataProvider: DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider, DotNetNuke.SqlDataProvider
ExceptionGUID: 1d208fa4-e509-42c6-b374-5d996482fdc3
InnerException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
FileName:
FileLineNumber: 0
FileColumnNumber: 0
Method: DotNetNuke.Services.Installer.Writers.ModulePackageWriter..ctor
StackTrace:
Message: DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.PageLoadException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at DotNetNuke.Services.Installer.Writers.ModulePackageWriter..ctor(PackageInfo package) at DotNetNuke.Services.Installer.Writers.PackageWriterFactory.GetWriter(PackageInfo package) at DotNetNuke.Modules.Admin.Extensions.EditExtension.BindData() at DotNetNuke.Modules.Admin.Extensions.EditExtension.OnLoad(EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
Source:
Server Name: GENERIC45

How might I remedy this issue?

Thanks,
Sid

Any resolution on the original issue? I have followed along and in my DNN 6 installation, when I click the edit button, at the bottom, all I have is; "Update Extension", "Uninstall Extension" and "Cancel". I do not have "Create Package"

I have several skins installed on my test site. Some show the Create Package link, while others do not. So far, I haven't been able to understand the difference.