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I have customized masterpage from seattle.master, then using visual studio I have deployed it and applied it to the root site through feature activation. However I am not seeing my newly customized masterpage on MasterPage gallery and is not listed on ChangeSiteMasterPage.aspx page on the dropdown.

Update:

Elements.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
<Elements xmlns="schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint">
  <Module Name="NewMasterPages" Url="_catalogs/masterpage" Path="NewMasterPages">
    <File Url="custom.master" Type="GhostableInLibrary" />
    <File Url="custom.preview" Type="GhostableInLibrary"/>
  </Module>
</Elements>

Any suggestion?

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  • How did you deploy the master page? Please include Elements.xml file – Arsalan Adam Khatri Nov 27 '18 at 15:10
  • <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Elements xmlns="schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint"> <Module Name="NewMasterPages" Url="_catalogs/masterpage" Path="NewMasterPages"> <File Url="custom.master" Type="GhostableInLibrary" /> <File Url="custom.preview" Type="GhostableInLibrary"/> </Module> </Elements> – Andrew Nov 27 '18 at 15:57
  • Have you published major version of the masterpage? If not then you need to do it in order to make it avalible :) – Morten K Nov 28 '18 at 8:44
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You will need to Upload and apply a new master page to a publishing site in SharePoint Server in order to make it to work. You can use SharePoint Designer for this to work by following the Steps To Create Custom Master Page In SharePoint 2013 Using Visual Studio.

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  • I am not using SharePoint designer. I am working with the copy of seattle.master on visual studio itself. My solution is getting deployed and custom masterpage is being applied. But i am not seeing on the MasterPage gallery and the the dropdown you have highlighted. – Andrew Nov 27 '18 at 18:52
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Andrew,

Can you try the following

  <Module Name="NewMasterPages" Url="_catalogs/masterpage" Path="NewMasterPages">
    <File Path="custom.master" Url="custom.master" Type="GhostableInLibrary">
      <Property Name="ContentType" Value="$Resources:cmscore,contenttype_masterpage_name;" />
      <Property Name="Title" Value="Custom Master Page" />
      <Property Name="MasterPageDescription" Value="Description of the master page" />
    </File>
  </Module>
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