Patrick Tisseghem's Blog [MVP SharePoint]

It's these things that make SharePoint better and better.

I just wonder why they made the design choice in the first place :)

I Particularly like the subject of your demosite :-)

another useful tips!  thx!

Welcome down-under, sorry about the temperature ;-)

I know you must get lots of these kinds of Q&A during your training sessions, please keep sharing for those of us not able to attend!

Did this. It worked exactly as you said, but I don't know how to resize the table for this page since it resides on the default master page. If I resize it there, it resizes it for ALL pages attached to the default master.

Ideas?

I'm having the same problem with resizing the table. Please advice.

Delete this placeholder and you'll have a menu wit the "good" width :

<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderPageImage" runat="server"></asp:Content>
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderLeftNavBar" runat="server"></asp:Content>
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderNavSpacer" runat="server"></asp:Content>


A simple way to don't have to do this manipulation on all your futurs pages is to modify the model at this place :
.\12\TEMPLATE\1036\STS\DOCTEMP\SMARTPGS\spstdX.aspx

Thanks for great pointer.

Does anyone know how to add webpart pages template beyond the eight out of the box e.g. ststd9.aspx?

It is easy to do this in SPS 2003.

Thanks.

Is there any good reason to have such a behavior? To me, It makes more sense to have a consistent layout. Or is it simply a "bug"?

Interesting article.

I am using SPS 2007 and noticed that the Search Center doesn't contain any menus at all. Once you're in there the only thing you can do is search, no menu options.

Would the same technique work for making the enterprise search feature work if various items were added to those pages?

Funny how much users think alike.  I had the same request to add the quicklauch to basic and webpart pages, and was able to figure out the above hack and the table spacing, but I can not figure out how to "templatize" this page, so the users can create the same layout per the normal process (without me having to mod each page). 


Can anyone help!??

Can this be down without Sharepoint Designer?

Great fix, thanks. If there was only a way to make a template out of it...

In response to the last comment, I don't know of a way to edit the code of an individual page without SharePoint Designer, but you can edit the templates, which is described above. The path might not be the same. I went to the 12 hive and did a search for "spstd", which brought back the templates with GIFs of their corresponding formats.

- Ray

Great tip and saves a lot of time. Thank you :)

here is how to make the change ONCE and not to every page you create.

Step One:

work on unghosted Masterpage (copy)

search for:

1) <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id=”PlaceHolderLeftNavBar” runat=”server”>
{ this is all the code for the menu }
</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>

2) <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id=”PlaceHolderNavSpacer” runat=”server”>
{ this is all the code for the spacer image }
</asp:ContentPlaceholder>

STEP TWO:
Ok, now all have to do is to cut and paste (or drag) the closing tag before the code in {  }, so you leave the code opened (outside of the ContentPlaceHolder) which means accordingly that it will be viewed in all of the new created pages that reads from the master page..

So code will be something like this :
1) <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id=”PlaceHolderLeftNavBar” runat=”server”>
</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
{ this is all the code for the menu }

B) <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id=”PlaceHolderNavSpacer” runat=”server”>
</asp:ContentPlaceholder>
{ this is all the code for the spacer image }

Now you will see the Quick Launch on every page you create automagically. Oh of course in WSS3 since you can't inherit Masterpages from Site to Site you'll have to make this change on the sites and subsites.  Or at least i can't figure out a way to make the change to the MP at the Top Level and have it trickle down!

Good Luck!

Also, you cannot just remove the above ContentPlaceHolders as they are required to render the page correctly!

I'll be posting this info on my company blog site as well.

for more info check out
http://www.springhouse.com
http://blog.springhouse.com  (currently down back back up soon, mar 12 2008)

Can this be down without Sharepoint Designer?

Yes.
You can edit the pages here C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\1033\STS\DOCTEMP\SMARTPGS

Skiltz
http://skiltzonnet.blogspot.com/

Hi Folks
Im using WSS 3.0, I am trying to open some links in the quick launch bar in a new window. Do you know if this is possible.

Frustrated User

This is an excellent tip - simple, powerful, well-stated.  Thank you, thank you so much!

Thank you. Great explanation

What a great post!!

I wanted to see how I could do this without Designer and my solution is simple.  Open the document library in Windows Explorer, change the extension to .txt, edit, save, and then change back to .aspx

You can read my post at www.bitsofsharepoint.com.

Thanks Patrick

As Notepad doesn't work with Sharepoint (ActiveX issue - http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver&tid=6503b95c-703d-4bfc-a797-a9eebf25c59c&p=1), the best way to modify web page source is to download all pages (Send To -> Download a Copy) to a local machine, edit them and then upload them back.

Hello everybody,
your solution works great (thank you very much) but I want to find a way to edit it for all pages - without to edit each page!
Because the users should not have the chance to create a page without the quicklaunch.
Thank you in advance and best regards from Germany!

Matthias