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change master page of a sharepoint page that have a page layout

based on this article right here, pages with the same page layout can use different master pages... how can i do that, i cannot seem to directly edit a page in sharepoint which have a page layout... and so i cannot edit it's master page
 

5 Answers Found

 

Answer 1

Hi,

Can you give the link to the article?

 

Answer 2

Master Pages are usually set on a site by site basis.  So yes it would be possible to have a sites use different master pages and therefore you'd have the same page layouts using different master pages.

You'd asked this question in another thread and marked it as answered:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010customization/thread/608f7ce6-ddfc-467e-b758-fd6941c41493

Could you please explain at a high level what you are trying to accomplish?  There might be an easier way to accomplish this by editing each page layout or master page.

 

Answer 3

Pages in a site (non-publishing) can use different master pages and this can be set using SharePoint Designer. A page can have one of three master pages assigned to it in this manner. you can attach it to the default.master (system master) page, the custom.master (site master) page or a specific master page of your choosing. If you attach it to either the default or custom master page, the master page being used can be changed via the GUI by selecting a different site or system master page. This is possible in the GUI only if Publishing is enabled at the Site Collection level. Page layouts are a different breed, however, and all the layouts in a specific site will use the same custom.master (site master) page. this is something you cannot change on a layout by layout, or better yet, layout page by layout page setting.
 

Answer 4

this is precisely it, for non-publishing pages, such as web part pages, i can easily customize the master page on a page level using SharePoint designer... the problem with publishing pages is that it have a page layout and as such i cannot seem to add a custom master page to it, at least not without setting the site master page property.... as of now i'm just using the web part page so i can easily customize its master page... the problem with web part page is this now...  why don't web part page have a "TITLE" attribute, unlike publishing page which have a TITLE attribute?
 

Answer 5

Actually it does. The metadata column is there but it is not showing in the Edit properties page. Will need to play with this to see how to get it to show with out much fuss, if I can.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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