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Is there a way to load a different master page if I can identify the user to be annonymous?

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    In my experience the "master page switching" approach leads to a great deal of confusion and complexity. I would try to avoid it if you can find another way of achieving what you are looking for. – SPDoctor♦ Nov 11 '11 at 0:12
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If you want to do it at page level, you can assign a different master page on "OnPreInit" event. Below is the example to do it on layout page if you have publishing site :

public class MyPublishingLayoutPage:PublishingLayoutPage
    {
        protected override void OnPreInit(EventArgs e)
        {
            base.OnPreInit(e);
            if (Context.Request.LogonUserIdentity.IsAnonymous)
            {                
              SPWeb web = SPContext.Current.Web;
              this.MasterPageFile = "~/_catalogs/masterpage/anonymous.master";                   

            }
        }

    }

If you have many pages, I would recommend to use HttpModule to hook PreInit handler into the page. Below is the example :

public class AnonymousMasterModule: IHttpModule
    {
        public void Init(HttpApplication context)
        {
            context.PreRequestHandlerExecute+= new EventHandler(context_BeginRequest);
        }

        void context_BeginRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
                string requestUrl = HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.ToString();
                if (!requestUrl.Contains(".aspx"))
                    return;               

                 Page page = HttpContext.Current.Handler as Page;
                 if (page != null)
                    page.PreInit += new EventHandler(page_PreInit);                

        }

        void page_PreInit(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {            
            Page page = sender as Page;
            if (page != null)
            {
                if (Context.Request.LogonUserIdentity.IsAnonymous)
                {
                    SPWeb web = SPContext.Current.Web;
                    page.MasterPageFile = "~/_catalogs/masterpage/anonymous.master";
                }
            }

        }
        public void Dispose()
        {

        }
    }
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If your goal is to have a different look and feel for different users, you can use a single Master Page, and include steps that only target specific profiles (anonymous users in your case).

Search the internet for the following terms: SPSecurityTrimmedControl and AnonymousTemplate.

It is what I use on this draft page:

http://usermanagedsolutions.com

For authenticated users, the site is just an out of the box SharePoint 2010 page. I add a css layer for anonymous users to modify the page width and hide the top bar.

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This post describes how can you change masterpage dynamiccally.

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  • This is sharepoint 2007, so I don't have access to code behind like that. Is there a way to do it 2007? – mdrussell0779 Nov 10 '11 at 18:37
  • sorry, I don't know another solution. – Alexander Nov 10 '11 at 18:47
  • If you working with SharePoint 2007, you can create HttpModule, and change the master page as described in the post. I don't see a reason related to SP2007 why you can't do that if you have SP on dedicated server. We used this approach to customize design of application pages in SP2007. Steps: – Yuri Leontyev Nov 10 '11 at 19:58
  • Steps: 1. create HttpModule that performs changing master page for anonymous users. 2. deploy it in GAC 3. register Module in web.config - Thats all. – Yuri Leontyev Nov 10 '11 at 20:03
  • @mdrussell0779 : You can create a code behind and implement what Alexander has suggested. – Amit Kumawat Nov 11 '11 at 10:44
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You can use two options only for targeting content to users (not change of master page):

  1. Audience for Server version - http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/.net/net_data/sortinganditerating/article.php/c13255__2/ and for 2010 but the concept seems to be the same in 2010 - http://blog.mastykarz.nl/content-targeting-anonymous-users-sharepoint-server-2010-part2-2/
  2. SPSecurityTrimmedControl - which allows showing content based on permissions - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.webcontrols.spsecuritytrimmedcontrol%28v=office.12%29.aspx
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You can use an Http Module to accomplish this.

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You can include within the Master Page steps that only target specific profiles (anonymous users in your case).

Search the internet for the following terms: SPSecurityTrimmedControl and AnonymousTemplate.

It is what I use on this draft page:

http://usermanagedsolutions.com

For authenticated users, the site is just an out of the box SharePoint 2010 page. I add a css layer for anonymous users to modify the page width and hide the top bar.

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This is the same what you asked, See the answer: How can we use a different masterpage for annoymous and authenticated users?

You can do with httpmodule or a code-behind in a page

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I have tried your example in my publishing site for web part pages. But its not work.

i debug the code but event handler is not call the below method.

void page_PreInit(object sender, EventArgs e)

Please advice...

Thanks in advance

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  • Did you register the HttpModule in web.config? Google up "HttpModule" and how to use it. – Sleeper Smith Oct 19 '12 at 3:31

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