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Masterpage galleries in subsites

Asked By: Tarang Upadhya Date: Feb 08, 2008 Category: Sharepoint Views: 693

I loaded a master page in a masterpage gallery in a subsite and tried
to reference that masterpage.
It was not given to me as an option when I went to the "master page"
option in the site settings of the sub site.
Anyone know why those galleries exist, if we cannot reference the
master pages it contains?

Tagged:masterpage galleries in subsites

3 Answers Found

Answer #1 Answered By: Bhairavi Damle Answered On: Feb 08, 2008

The masterpage link in site settings only exists if you have publishing
turned on. Publishing provides a system of inheritance where all the
masterpages are stored in the master Page gallery at the top level site
of the site collection. To use the masterpages in the local site
gallery you either need to reference it directly in the masterpage
attribute of the aspx page. That can be done programmatically or
through SharePoint designer.

Answer #2 Answered By: Leeann Hull Answered On: Feb 08, 2008

What if I wanted to store a custom layout page in the site level masterpage
gallery and wanted to reference that as well..?
I haven't seen a place on a masterpage that references a layout page..am I
missing something?

Answer #3 Answered By: Vaasu Radhakrishna Answered On: Feb 08, 2008

It's the other way around. The @Page declaration at the top of the
layout page references the master page. Most pages simply reference a
replaceable token ~masterurl/default.master, but you can also directly
reference a master page in the masterpage gallery by substituting
~site/_catalogs/masterpage/name of the masterpage.

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