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Creating pages dynamically through code?

First thing is first, I'm doing this in Sharepoint 2013. I'm not exactly sure what the best approach is to be, so I'm explaining my problem and hopefully people can throw around some terms or ideas ...
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SharePoint 2013 Migration - Home Page Style Unusable

I have a WSS 3.0 environment that we are migrating to SP2013 and the upgrade went as planned (and somewhat expected). We have a few sites that were apparently customized when it was WSS 2.0 and I am ...
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Apply master page based on custom site template

Is it possible to programmatically set the master page for a site based on the custom template used to create said site? I created some custom templates with custom page layout and webparts, they are ...
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Anatomy of a SharePoint 2010 Master Page? Resource for this?

I am interested in finding out detailed information about all the elements within the SharePoint master page v4 to start, in order to learn how to create my own while still retaining key ...
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Achieving consistent branding for all SharePoint 2013 sites

I see that a lot of the discussions and documentation tend to be focused on branding solutions for publishing sites and understandably so. We have a lot of other types of sites too (e.g. communities, ...
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Will it come in Master Page or Page Layout? (doing integration for the first time)

I am going to integrate the following home and about page for the first time using SharePoint designer. As far as I know there are 3 types of pages. Master page Page layout that comes under master ...
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Understanding master page (where is the main content area?)

Let's say I make a copy of minimal starter master page which is available on internet. What is the main content area in that master page where I can write something my own text? I mean there are many ...
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Add call to static method in master page

I have an branding solution with custom master page. I have also utilities assembly, which is deployed into GAC. I have a button in my master page and I'd like to bind it's navigate URL to result of ...
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What is the Ideal Approach for Creating a Custom Home Page?

I need to create a custom home page for our SharePoint 2010 site. The rest of the site will use a separate template for all of the sub-pages. Should I create a dedicated master page for the home page ...
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What is __spText1 and __spText2 used for?

Hello I am new to SharePoint and I wanted to make a custom master page. I've stumbled on __spText1 and __spText2 and I was wondering if I can remove them? If not, what do they do / represent? Thank ...
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I keep getting “Revert to template” whenever I set a custom masterpage for one particular page

I made 2 master pages. One named "reg_page.master" for all the regular pages, still containing the Quick Launch, and another one named "home_page.master" for the homepage only. The homepage has an ...
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Any ideas why the Inherit is not available on a SPWeb?

Any ideas why the Inherit is not available on a SPWeb?
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Use welcomepage from parent on subsites

How can I use a custom welcomepage (Home.aspx) on every subsite I create? When I select the Welcomepage in Site Settings I get an Welcome page invalid error.
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Allow subsites to inherit master page

I have a custom master page called custom.master which I have tweaked to enable a drop down 'Mega Menu' placed underneath the titlebar. I have gotten it working in my site (which is not the root site, ...
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How to retrieve Sharepoint list data in master page

I have Created Custom Master Page. and i want to access SharePoint List Data in this Master Page using JavaScript. I write the following script to access data but it gives error that ...
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right sided webparts in a div

Is it possible to place the rightsided webparts inside a div with id right? Like this (pipe is a div column): | left nav | left webpart | right webpart | I want to have a div floating to place ...
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Use secondary masterpage as default

I am trying sharepoint in a small developing environment. I have a master frontpage that use a specific layout defined in a custom masterpage (master-front.master). It look like this | left box | ...
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401 Unauthorized caused by custom master page

just customized a master page for the new SP 2013 Foundation. Deployment, activation etc. works fine (i deploy it using a .wsp built with VS2012) but every time im trying to access my sp-page with the ...
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How to dynamically change master page's master page?

I have designed a module that change master page dinamically based on user log-in privileges. I followed this tutorial : ...
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Add left and right margins or padding to custom v4.master (s4-bodyContainer)?

How do I add margins/padding to the left and right of the master page while still retaining the scroll-bar on the right? I don't want a fixed-width page - just scaling width, with left and right ...
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SHarepoint 2010 - popup an image for 5 second after i open my site

How i can popup an image that display for 5 second as slogan/announcement after opening my sharepoint site welcome page As Example: http://www.lebanese-forces.com regards, Hass
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How to route To different MasterPages in sharepoint?

I 'm trying to create a HttpModule that allows to route to different MasterPage preInt event. I' not an Expert about MasterPages. I'm trying to nderstand about MasterPages Token. I knows there ...
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How to enable anonymous access for the custom master page in SP2010

I created one site with forms based authentication and anonymous access. That is working fine. Now i want to replace the master page with the custom master page. I just copied the nightandday.master ...
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Master page error in subsite

I am inheriting a master page from site collection. The master page is having a dataview web part embedded inside it. The data view web part shows a list of the site collection. In the site collection ...
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Site and System Masterpages Issue

I have two custom masterpages, one for site, and one for the system pages. Both of these masterpages use the same CSS file, and they both also reference a different CSS file than the other. ...
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Are there any webpage that provide free master pages for download?

Are there websites that have master pages template for designers to download and modify? I notice that there are 2 type of master page templates as follows: [1] template that require to be installed ...
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set as default master page VS set as custom master page

What does it really mean in SharePoint Designer 2007 with regards to 'Set as default master page' and 'Set as Custom master page'? Are there really differences between them? And at what type of ...
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how to make the current tab in the top nav a different color

I'm developing a new master page and I'm needing to make the tab in the navigation a different color if it is the current page. Here is what I have so far: <div class="nav"> ...
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tool for finding out which Custom master page being used

I am trying to find a tool, that tells me which Custom master page is being used by a web/site, I tried google it but couldn't find anything relative. Cheers
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Custom Masterpage - Background image from library

I was hoping someone may be able to guide me in the right direction. I want the header in a custom master page to have a background image that can be changed by an 'owner' in a user friendly manner. ...
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Hard Coded Navigation in Master Page - Active link not changing

Prior to my arrival it was decided that all navigation would be hard coded into the Master Page. I wish I could find a solid reason why, but for the time being it escapes me. Due to time constraints, ...
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1answer
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Customizing SmallSearchInputBox default text

I am trying to customize the text displayed in the search box of my SharePoint site. The default is "Search this site...". I found a number of articles which explain how to do it (by overriding the ...
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1answer
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Looking for a tutorial on creating SharePoint masterpages as solutions in Visual Studio

I am looking to build some SharePoint masterpages for 2010 and deploy them as WSP solutions to my various SharePoint environments. Are there any good tutorials out there on building a VS solution for ...
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1answer
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Multi-level top navigation menu on the application/_layouts pages

I created custom master page, and I created feature for top navigation menu. My custom master page works fine, but not on the application/_layouts pages; viewlsts.aspx, settings.aspx, etc.. I only see ...
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Custom minimal.master for SharePoint Online

Same as for a custom v4.master, I want to create a custom minimal.master. The common advice: make a copy of minimal.master and then modify it. But how can I reference to the custom minimal.master? ( ...
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HTML-Element appears in dialog-windows though s4-notdlg is set

I have a customized sharepoint masterpage. The basic structure is the starter master pages from codeplex. So i did my customizing and unfortunately some of the elements appear in the dialog windows ...
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jQuery addclass and remove class not updating properly

I have a SharePoint ASPMenu in a MasterPage, I;m trying to change the selected style class using jQuery. Basically when user click a menu item it will cause postback so that the page will be directed ...
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ContentPlaceHolder generates automatically width=100%

in my custom master page the content doesn't fit into the page since a automatically generated table with the id=layoutsTable has width="100%". Since i have a fixed page layout there are some issues ...
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Add HTML link tag with dynamic SRC attribute to masterpage HEAD section

I Need to add a <link> tag with a dynamic src attribute to a custom masterpage <head> section pointing to a current SPWeb library like this: <link rel="alternate" ...
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Updating an uncustomized master page deployed as a wsp solution

I deployed an uncustomized master page as a SP 2010 Server farm solution using these instructions http://plekky.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=11 Now I need to update the master page. I edited it ...
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IM Presence Icons not appearing in SOME master pages - IE9

I have updated my master pages to use some HTML5 and CSS3 elements. I therefore changed the to use HTML5, and altered the X-UA-COMPATIBLE to work in "IE=9;IE=Edge;" mode (instead of IE8). I did not ...
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Search box disappears on search result page when using a customer masterpage

I have created a custom master page. I display the search box on the page using the following code: <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="PlaceHolderSearchArea" runat="server"> ...
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Force use of the default content of a master page asp:ContentPlaceholder

I have a ContentPlaceholder in my custom master that has default content. I want to always use this default content. However there are some pages in the 14 hive that have an asp:Content that ...