Hi All,
I'm a bit confused here. Is it true that modifying the application.master (which I don't want to do) is the only way to change the masterpage for the _layout pages in Sharepoint 2007 ?
In fact changing all the files themselves is not an option either because it's not supported I was told.
So how's the correct procedure to change the _layout pages from your sitecollection ?
Fred
Hello Fred,
as i know this is the only option to set application wide master settings. Does someone else know about other possibilities?
Greetings, Marcel
Hi All,
Little update ... I found an interesting blogpost on this subject:
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/dwise/archive/2007/01/08/SingleMasterPage.aspx
Basically it's writing a small http module that checks for application.master when a page loads and when found it replaces it with your own masterpage.
I don't know if this is fully supported, but it works fine for me ... Just make sure you have a clean masterpage ... it threw me some errors on some pages at first because I missed some placeholders.
Fred
yeah, that's it. i compiled the http handler and it works nice!
is there an option to do the same with a custom theme? i would like to apply my theme on all sites. i think the problem there is, that the masterpages is a part of .net 2.0, but themes are a sharepoint related thing.
thx for your feedback!
Hmm. I had a bit of a look around. Heather Solomon seems to be pretty hot at this sort of thing, and I found an interesting page:
http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/archive/2006/10/27/sp07cssoptions.aspx
It sort of consolidated a thought I'd already had in my head. Given that master pages and themes do similar things (in some ways) one answer is to just not use themes. Put your styles in your master page, and force inheritance of that. That seems to be her suggestion.
hey andy, thx!
i've also seen this post, this would work... what about just to modify the default theme? until now i couldn't find the default theme.. ghosted and unghosted.. do you know where to find it? if i don't find another solution, i have to do it the way Heather Solomon mentioned. Thx to her..
today i implemented my customized css styles in the following unghosted masterpages:
application.master (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS)
default.master (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\GLOBAL)
customized.master (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\THEMES\YOURTHEMENAME)
and my customized styles are applied on every page, inclusive the settingspages and mysite!
thanks a lot to Heather!
