Comments on: Deploying the Master Page (Master Pages and SharePoint part 4 of 6)

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By: libis22

libis22 — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:20:24 +0000

I wanted to add Out of the box webpart, Content query webpart to masterpage. Can you suggest any ways or point to any links which may help me on the same.

Many Thanks

By: Smriti singh

Smriti singh — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:34:18 +0000

Hi Ggalipeau,

Wonderful articles.cleared a lot of doubts about master pages in sharepoint. I didnt find the links to the last 2 articles in this series.Can you help me with that.
I also wanted to know how can we use skin files in master pages using SharePoint designer or if we can style controls using css only…

By: bdspurlock

bdspurlock — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:09:27 +0000

Hi, I'm fairly new to Sharepoint, but I created a masterpage in SharePoint designer and then copied it over into a VS masterpage so I could deploy it using STSdev. I deployed it and it works fine. But I get an error when I select my masterpage in the site settings. But when I go into Sharepoint Designer and make the master page Ghosted it works fine. Any ideas why?

By: Tina C

Tina C — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:30:00 +0000

Hello – just double checking – this only works on MOSS with publishing turn on, right? will it work on WSS 3.0 ? (I want to save me a lot of pain trying to figure it out why it isn’t working when the truth is I have the wrong vesion of the product)

By: neamattazi

neamattazi — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:41:16 +0000

I was able to figure it out. The reason was in the permissions of the feature folder. Since I created the feature folder by right clicking in windows explorer and creating it, it didn't have the inherited permissions of the main Features Folder so I had to right click on it -> properties -> security – > Advanced – > Permissions Tab – > check the inherit all permission check box and Voila it worked

By: neamattazi

neamattazi — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:47:00 +0000

I have a problem, I create it a master page based on blueband master page and then I deployed it using a feature. The feature gets installed and when i try to activate it, it tells me that it's successfully activated and then when i try to open the sharepoint site it gives me 403 forbidden. I then deactivate the feature and try again and i find that the files are there so I change the master page from the master page link and then it works. When for any reason an IISRESET is done to the server, my master page lose it's css that is applied to it and it loses its images.. Any idea what's the problem? Is it related to the feature itself? BTW: i used the same feature on a test server and it worked fine and it was activated and the site is working fine.

Thank you very much in advace

By: ggalipeau

ggalipeau — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:29:22 +0000

Hey Bill,
The best place to deploy CSS files is in the Layouts folder of the 12 hive (usually: Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft Sharedweb server extensions12TemplateLayouts). The interesting thing about the layouts folder in the 12 hive is that SharePoint creates and IIS path to that folder with “_layouts”. So, you can reference things in that folder by placing “_layouts/{path to css}” in your html.
Another option is to put the css files in the style library/list in the actually SharePoint site. This is a good option if you want to modify css directly in SharePoint.
I usually choose the Layout folder option for the following reasons:
1. It is real easy to deploy
2. It is how SharePoint does it's css files
3. There is some caching going on with that Layouts folder which can give you some performance help (but – this is minimal)

By: Bill Spencer

Bill Spencer — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:45:01 +0000

Hi Greg,

Great article. I have a master page ready but it uses a special css file in conjunction with core and others.

What is the best way to deploy my special CSS file and where? Should I list it in the elements.xml? I want the new master page (and it's css) to be available to all sites in the collection.

Thanks
Bill