The master page is a feature that enables you to define common structure and interface markup elements for your Web site, including headers, footers, style definitions, or navigation bars. The master page can be shared by any of the pages in your Web site, called the Content Page, and removes need ...
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“Cannot find ContentPlaceHolder” error when anonymous access enabled
I have a custom master page, custom.master, for a publishing site. It was working fine, however I just enabled anonymous access to the publishing site, and now browsing to the home page for that site ...
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Upgrading 2007 master page to 2010
My site is on 2010 foundation, but our master page is still the 2007 version. We'd like to upgrade to the 2010 version in order to get the perks of 2010 (pop-up item editing, ribbon, etc.) Can ...
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Problems saving Masterpage in Sharepoint Server 2010
My Sharepoint site is using a custom Masterpage.
I get an error just checking out, and saving the Masterpage without doing any changes.
When I open the masterpage in sharepoint designer, and try to ...
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Customizing Top navigation bar with javascript
I would like to make a customized the top navigation bar with mouse hoover and dropdown.
The list is all sites that person have access too in that site collection.
Since some people have access to ...
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Site Page Logo will not update from default
I have been working on a page and I had set it up to inherit from the parent, however when the page displays in the browser you can quickly view the new logo then the page reverts to the SharePoint ...
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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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How to display “English” link on Arabic website and “Arabic” link on English website
I want to display link "Arabic" on my English site so user can click on it to view "Arabic" version. I want to do similar thing on my Arabic site where it will display link "English".
How do I do ...
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How to display navigation in publishing site?
I have a publishing site with multi language support. The site uses its own main menu (navigation) with custom CSS. It is currently displaying static text like Home, About Us, Contact Us e.t.c. I want ...
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Difference between DynamicMasterPageFile and Static Token
I am reading article
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bgeoffro/archive/2009/06/22/master-pages-revisited-references-to-master-pages-in-sharepoint.aspx
but I am not sure what they mean by ...
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Within SharePoint how do we send data to login page rather than clicking on a sign-in button from previous page?
For public facing sites in SharePoint 2010, there is a sign-in button that you click, which leads to the sign-in page. Then on the sign-in page you can enter your credentials to sign-in.
Is there a ...
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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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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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site definition master page problem
Ive created a site definition and am trying to reference a custom master page that is installed as a feature. For some reason when i create a site using the site definition i get a filenotfound ...
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SP2013: Adding a custom usercontrol to masterpage using Design Manager
I created a custom masterpage using the SP2013 Design Manager. I also created a SharePoint solution in Visual studio 2012 with a custom usercontrol (ascx) and custom webparts.
The masterpage works ...
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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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System master page is assigned to all pages, and site master pages has no effect
I am building a publishing site in SharePoint 2010, but I have get in troubles when I choose a masterpage: I have to choose the same masterpage to back-end pages and to site pages.
I know that I can ...
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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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SPD - creating a copy of master page = invalid
I'm using SP2010, and am working at the moment in SPD 2010. I have a site, and am trying use a copy of v4.master as the site master page.
So, in SPD...
(I got two different books on SPD, and they ...
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Unlink page from master
Is there a way to "unlink" a page from the master page? Specifically, what I want to do is have a completely blank page display a SharePoint ListViewWebPart.
Alternatively, if I start by creating a ...
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Help Changing Page Title
I am trying to change the page title for a pre-existing page in SharePoint. I've gone into "Edit" and changed the title from "Travel and Security" to "Immigration, Travel And Security".
However, ...
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How to not use SharePoint master page
Is it possible not to attach any Master page to your aspx file(s) inside SharePoint Designer 2007?
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Default Web-Part Page for new Lists / Calendars etc
When you have a team site and create a new List of Document Library, Calendar etc. SharePoint creates a new WebPart page and places the respective WebPart in there. As you can see when you edit the ...
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SOAP error when trying to access data and template from Designer
I get the following error message when trying to view a msater page or try to view data from SharePoint Designer:
soap:ServerServer was unable to process request. ---> Value does not
fall within ...
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Dataview webpart on Subsite pulling list from Parent Site
In a Master Page I need to insert a Data View that pulls information from the parent site. I believe I can do this with a Content Query Web Part but I cannot put a web part like this into a Master ...
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looking for javascript reference that's in master page
An old version of jquery is being loaded into my masterpage and I can't figure out where it's coming from.
Looking at the masterpage, I see
SharePoint:ScriptLink ID="ScriptLink1" ...
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Mobile View - Object Reference not set to an instance of an object
When trying to access a site on a mobile device. I am getting Object Reference not set to an instance of an object. What in particular would cause this problem. Could I have accidentally removed an ...
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Page Title not showing up in the breadcrumb - SharePoint 2010
I am trying to include current page title after site name on a sharepoint 2010 publishing site.
The master page that I have created contains the necessary control to render the page title as attached ...
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System.ArgumentException: Could not find the sitemap node with URL '/_layouts/WebAnalytics/WebAppSelection.aspx'
I've made a custom master page for my SharePoint site and it works fine on all the pages that I've checked except for the Web Analytics pages. I get the following error in the logs when I go there:
...
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Custom Master Page Issue
I was hoping someone could help me out with a little issue I have in regards to a customized masterpage. A bit of background:
I need to revamp our Intranet website upon migration to 2010 so decided ...
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Best way to initialize an Contextual Tab?
I've a custom contextual ribbon tab element and I'm initializing it throw the following code on a webcontrol hosted on the masterpage:
protected override void OnPreRender(EventArgs e)
{
...
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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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Broken versioning for master pages and style library
This has been frustrating me for a while.
When I look at the master page library or the style library on my SharePoint site I see that versioning is in place. However, the site itself always loads ...
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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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Can I have multiple “main” areas in a master page?
In most of the CMS software I've worked with there is a simple method for identifying user-editable parts of a theme. In Concrete5, for example you can add something like:
<?php
$a = new ...
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How can I get a reference to the server side form control from inside a web part?
I have a web part embedded in a publishing site that needs to get a reference to the <form runat="server"/> in the master page.
I have to set the 'action' attribute to allow the form to post ...
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Imported site collection has “Revert to template”
I've imported a site collection via PowerShell and all the pages show the message:
The current page has been customized from its template. [Revert to template].
The original site collection didn't ...
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Which contentplaceholder to use for Search Center
In my SharePoint site I am using a custom masterpage which is based on the original v4 masterpage. I did not make any big changes, except add a line to use custom CSS.
However when I create a Search ...
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How to setup an internet facing site using MasterPages and Page layouts?
I'm trying to customize my SharePoint site to be an internet facing site.
I know I can do this by setting up customized masterpages and page layouts, but I didn't find a lot of documentation for ...
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Reusable content disappearing on Publishing Page
On the publishing site I've created a simple page with a Page Content. I've added a web part there and then I'm trying to add a Reusable Content. However it turns into a like here
Any workarounds?
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Use v4.master for layouts, but custom master for site
We have a SharePoint 2010 publishing site (migrated from 2007 via db-attach), and we have a custom master page for the site. But whenever I access files under _layouts/ (eg ManageFeatures.aspx, ...
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Common masterpage for multilple web applications
Is there anyway we can use a common master page for multiple web application so that changes done in this master page will reflect in all the web applications.
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MasterPageFile for Publishing site
I have some confusion over MasterPageFile attribute.There are two options available for master pages, custom master page and default master settings in SharePoint Designer. One master page I have set ...
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SharePoint 2010 MasterPage on SP's Application Pages [closed]
Running on SharePoint 2010 Foundation. I have created a custom master page which works well for the most part. In SharePoint Designer, I've set the master page as default & custom master pages. ...
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How can I override default.master?
I am wanting to update the default.master masterpage in order to hide the search box functionality. This requires just adding some CSS.
What I have done is created a feature and to the feature I ...
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No setting on sub-sites to inherit master page from parent of the site
I am using SharePoint 2010...........
When I create a sub-site and I go to "Site Settings" there is no option that will allow me to inherit site master page from parent of the site.
I have to ...
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How in master page to show/hide placeholder based on page layout content type?
How is the best approch to show / hide place holders which are in the Master Page based on which content type the Page Layout is associated with?
In the design we have a right placeholder for all ...
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scroll property on body element set to no
In Randy Disgrills starter masterpage the body element has scroll="no", why must it have this?
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Quick Links not showing in custom Master Page on Web Part page
I have created a new custom master page & I've got everything working (including showing the QuickLinks on the left on default.aspx & any "built in" SharePoint pages, such as "Shared ...
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UserDisp using old version after backup / restore
This is a funny one.
I backed up a site - lets call it : http://site_old, then I did a restore - lets call it : http://site_new.
Site_old had a custom company logo in the site definition somewhere ...
