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I have created a custom masterpage which is set to be a 'Site' masterpage and not a system master page. I have a community which I have built using community web parts.

When I add a comment to a topic, the masterpage which is rendered with the add topic web part is not my custom masterpage.

How do I ensure that all pages in SharePoint 2013 use my custom masterpage?

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Site Master Pages are only used on publishing pages. This excludes e.g. the views of lists (NewForm.aspx, AllItems.aspx, etc.). Also while viewing a topic the page is based on a web part Site Page, i.e. not a publishing page.

If you'd like to have custom master pages used on these non publishing pages, you could edit the .aspx -file of the selected pages to use your master page. Briefly put the instructions would be:

  1. Open your community site on SharePoint Designer
  2. Open Site Pages -> Topic.aspx -> Edit file
  3. From the ribbon row select Advanced Mode
  4. Most likely from row no. 2 you'll find MasterPageFile="~masterurl/default.master". Edit this to refer to your custom master page file (e.g. "~sitecollection/_catalogs/masterpage/CustomMasterPage.master")
  5. Save the changes
  6. Repeat steps 2-5 on DispForm.aspx (etc.) found on Lists and Libraries -> Discussions List and on whichever .aspx files you find necessary

Notes:

  • I have not tested this solution in this scenario.
  • Sometimes when you edit a page in Advanced Mode an informative text The current page has been customized from its template. Revert to template. shows up on the page. One way to get rid of the message is explained on entrance's blog.
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  • Hi, my site is a publishing site with custom page layouts which have web parts that make up a community, when i want to a comment to a topic my masterpage is not used. – Dom Jul 29 '14 at 11:36
  • Just clearing up: So your custom master page is used on the "community main page" which shows the topics etc.? But it's not used when you for example open a topic? – moe Jul 29 '14 at 11:42
  • Thats correct, I have created a custom masterpage, and then a custom page layout, i have then added 'Community' web parts to that custom page layout but when i open a topic the default SP2013 masterpage is displayed with the topic web part on the page. hope this makes sense, thanks – Dom Jul 29 '14 at 11:54
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    That's because the page showing your community web parts is a publishing page, which uses the Site Master Pages. However the view of your topics is actually a Site Page (OOTB /_layouts/15/start.aspx#/Lists/Community%20Discussion/AllItems.aspx) and opened topic is a list item opened in a site page format too. These have nothing to do with publishing pages and thus they obey the set System Master Page. – moe Jul 29 '14 at 12:19
  • Hi Moe, thanks for the info, this helps explain why my style is not applied but can you give some advice on how i can modify the style of AllItems.aspx so that i dont have to set the system master page as my custom master page because i am using a Fixed width 1024px and it causes issues when i have overflows in web parts etc with the Admin view. Ultimately i need to style all pages on an adhoc basis whether they are system pages or not. Thanks for your help so far. – Dom Jul 30 '14 at 9:24

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