Customized
Master pages in SharePoint 2010::
Introduction
This
article demonstrates we will how to enable/use the Custom Master Page
changes in Sharepoint 2010.
Step
1: To Enable Customization
First
if we want to work/change the Master Pages in SharePoint 2010, need
to enable the below features.
Navigate
to the landing page of your newly created site collection:
→ Click
on “Site Actions” → Click on “Site Collection Features” →
Enable “SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure”
Step2:
Enable
this feature at site collection level
We
need to do the same thing at site level also.
→ Click
on “Site Actions”→ Click on “Manage site features” →
Enable “SharePoint Server Publishing”
Step4:
Enable
on a site level
Step5:
Once
we enabled the features, we can able to see the Master Page option in
Look and Feel.
If the Master
Page is already enabled, we can skip the steps from 1 to 4.
Select
your customized and published master page:
If
we get the below warning means the Master page may not be published
correctly. We can follow the below solution steps.
Warning:
The selected master page has no approved version. This site may
appear to be broken to users without the view versions right in the
Master Page Gallery
Steps:
Click
Site Actions –> Site Settings –> Modify All Site
Settings
Click Master pages and page layouts
Click the down arrow next to your .master file
If Check In is an option, click Check In
Click OK
Click the down arrow next to your .master file again
Click Publish a Major Version
Click OK
Click the Down arrow next to your .master file
Click Approve/reject
Click the Radial Button next to Approved.
Click OK.
Click Master pages and page layouts
Click the down arrow next to your .master file
If Check In is an option, click Check In
Click OK
Click the down arrow next to your .master file again
Click Publish a Major Version
Click OK
Click the Down arrow next to your .master file
Click Approve/reject
Click the Radial Button next to Approved.
Click OK.
The
final output of Customized master pages:
Summary:
Customizing the Master Page is important step in SharePoint Portal development. For start-up we can use the Codeplex pages, based on our requirement we can customize the design.
