Saturday, May 8, 2010

SharePoint BlueGlassBand.master template

If you are working with the BlueGlassBand.master file, there are many items different than the default.master since this is a publishing template.  Here are some of my notes from working with it.

  • MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels="1"
    • will add a right arrow in the right side of the banner area that when you hover over it will show your 1st level of items in your Global Navigation (top menu bar)
    • Why would I want this?  If you want to remove your Global Navigation (top menu bar) from the area below to save space.
  • StaticDisplayLevels="2"
    • will add the 1st level Global Navigation plus the banner directly underneath resulting in a column
    • Why would I want this?  Only if you want it to display in a column format...not likely.
  • No Global Breadcrumb because the datasource is different
  • Different Local Breadcrumb because the datasource is different (here I just edited it and replaced with one from default.master)
  • Site Title next to logo/banner will be the Site Collection if in Global Navigation you choose to inherit the menu from above rather than the local Site Title (I hate this one!)

Although the layout is nice and clean and you may be tempted to want to use it for sites, just remember it was intended for Internet facing sites, so many items are different and will be confusing for the users if they are use to the default.master.

I would recommend copying the default.master and changing that copy to look how you want.

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