Hi, In SharePoint Designer 2007, how do i change the page title of a page that was already created?
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Answer 2 Hi, when I right click the file and select Properties - all I see is a General tab and Summary. There isn't anything to change the Title. Please tell me exactly where to go...........Thanks alot. Answer 3 You should be able to click on the name of the page just like you would in Windows Explorer to change the name. Click once to highlight the page in the window. Then, click once more on the name of the page. It should turn into a text box where you can change the name of the page...just remember to keep the name of the extension (probably .aspx if it's a page) the same. HTH Answer 4 Hi, if I do it that way I'm changing the file name and not the title of the page. When I open the page, I would like the title bar and tab name to be something specific. Right now when I open the specific page, it shows as "-". How can I change that? Answer 5 OIC what you are saying...I don't know of a way to change that in SP Designer. As far as I know, the only way to do that is through the 'Edit Page' tool when you've opened that page in a web browser. You can click on 'Edit title Bar Properties' to change the title of the page - if that's what you're referring to. I'm pretty sure that is stored in the DB, and not anywhere on the page level, so it wouldn't be anything you would normally be able to change in SP Designer. Answer 6 Hi, this is what i just tried to do. I opened the site, then went to site actions - site settings - modify all site settings. Under Look & Feel, I clicked on Title, description & Icon. I tried changing the title but that didn't work. It changed the title of the site and the tab for the site in Office SharePoint Server 2007, but it did not change the Title bar in IE......... That is what I am trying to do..........change the title bar and the title of the tab in IE. Any other suggestions? Answer 7 If you want to change the title that I think you are talking about, you don't need to go to Site Settings/Look & Feel. You need to open the page you want to modify and go to 'Site Actions' --> Edit Page. This will give you the page that lets you add web parts and change web part properties and such (assuming the page you're on has web part zones). If you look just above the actual page content on the right hand of the page, there should be a link called 'Edit Title Bar Properities'. If you click this it will give you a web part content editor on the right hand of the screen that lets you change the Title. I think this is what you're looking for. The title bar in IE is seems like it is tied to the usually tied to the name of the .aspx page. HTH...sorry if I'm not understanding what you are looking for, -James Answer 8 Hi, I went to Site Actions - Edit Page..........however there's isn't any link that says "Edit Title Bar Properties"............... Answer 9 Ok, I think I see where we're probably talking about two different things. What I am talking about is the web page title bar webpart that is loaded automatically when you create a 'Web Part Page'. I see now that there is not a title on the pages like 'default.aspx'. We're now back to square one with me not quite understanding which title bar you are talking about. What type of page are you trying to edit? Is it a Web Part Page, or Basic Page, or default.aspx?... - I just now tried to create a Basic Page and now I think I might know what you're seeing. The Basic Page only has a ContentEditorWebPart and doesn't have the web part that I was referring to before. In addition, I see how it says 'Basic Page' in the IE title bar no matter what the file name is - it seems like that's hardcoded into the page type. It must just depend on the page type that you are using as to whether or not it uses the page filename or a hardcoded name. Anyway, I know this doesn't help you much, but at least now you know you're not the only one that can't figure it out! -James Answer 10 Goodmorning. Thank you so much for trying to help me out. I still haven't figured it out as yet. It's something with this specific page that i can't change it. All my other pages in Office SharePoint, when it's opened in IE displays the correct title on the title bar and the IE tab, but it's just this specific page.......... Can't quite understand why as yet.............Probably it's something staring me in the face and I can't seem to see it. Have you read my other posts? I need help with other things but noone replied as yet. Can you please check it out and see if you can help? Thanks a million. Answer 12 Easiest way to do this is use a web part page instead of a basic page. create the web part page as a full page with a title bar, copy the relevent code from the basic page you already have into the area where the "web part" on the web part page was meant to be (ie copying over the top of), you can then either edit the title by double clicking on the "Title Bar" in SP Designer or editing the page in IE. The Page Title (as displayed in the title bar in IE) takes its name from the page name, so whatever you call the .aspx file it will be called this - ie "It is Lunch Time.aspx" will have a title of "It is Lunch Time" only other way i can think of doing it would be to duplicate the masterpage and edit it so that the <title></title> tags are not auto-generated, then apply that masterpage to your basic page instead of the default.master page. good in the theory, but have not had a need to do this so have not tried it. Answer 13 Thanks, Shannon. Using a Web Part page does help. Before I gave up on it, I noticed the Basic Page template generates code for the title tag that references a hard-wired (albeit language-dependent) string, What is not documentted anywhere I've looked is exactly how the template works. I seem to be left with examining a lot of code, which is a very non-productive way of working, SharePoint Designer helps, too, but one must be familiar with the SharePoint way of doing things in order to get anything done. There are just too many layers of .Net and SharePoint components involved even for someone familiar with page design. This again takes the focus away from the work to be done. Microsoft has a mixed history when it comes to making programs user-friendly and intuitive. I can only hope they'll learn some day, Answer 14 Hi, SiteActions->Site Settings->Modify all Site settings->Content and structure and click on pages folder.Then if you click on the page that you want to change the title , you will see edit settings option. Click on it and change the title of the page. Answer 15 Ok, I may not be following this discussion correctly, but you should be able to change the page title (including the tab or window title in IE) by clicking "Site Actions / Edit Page" and then in the page editing toolbar select "Page / Page Settings" and then change the "Title" to what you want in the title bar and press "OK". Let me know how that works for you.
Answer 16 Thanks, but the "Modify all Site settings->Content and structure" options are not available on a WSS site - I assume they are present in MOSS. Another detail about using the web parts page as a solution: a web part page takes on the file name as its title when it is first created, but if the name is changed later on, the title is not updated by the WSS interface. However, one can edit the page and modify the title with SharePoint Designer more easily then with Basic Pages, wich have more server controls in the title tag. All this time and research just to change a page's title - things like these should and could be much easier ... Answer 17 Ah sorry, I knew I was missing something, WSS makes life harder for this problem.
Answer 18 Is there any specific reason to go for a WSS page? As MOSS is much easier than WSS and MOSS is derived from WSS from my understanding. Any howi tried doing it but couldnt make it.
Answer 19 If you are asking why they are using wss and not moss, my guess would be price. One has a license fee and the other does not. Answer 20 As The Mossman said, WSS is free with the server license. MOSS is expensive, particularly for small organizations - too expensive, in my opinion. Unfortunately, add-ons are often priced for MOSS, too. The more I use SharePoint, the less I appreciate this pricing model. It really amounts to "bait and switch". I shouldn't be surprised - these are Microsoft products, after all - but it is still another instance of putting marketing above the end-user's best interest. Answer 21 1) In order to modify the title bar in Internet Explorer of a page in sharepoint, say a webpart page based on blankwebpart.aspx layout, open the blankwebpart.aspx file in SPD (located in _catalogs/masterpage in SPD) 2) Make sure the contentplaceholder named "PlaceholderPageTitle" is modified to the following value: - <asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderPageTitle" runat="server">
<SharePointWebControls:ListItemProperty Property="BaseName" MaxLength=40 runat="server"/>
</asp:Content> Answer 22 Hi there! Depending on the page whose title you want to change there are a couple of ways of doing this: For pages like EditForm and NewForm (or pages you've created based on these) you will see something like this near the top of the code when you open it in SP Designer: <asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderPageTitle" runat="server"> <SharePoint:ListFormPageTitle runat="server"/></asp:Content>Take out <SharePoint:ListFormPageTitle runat="server"/> and put in your own title. So you end up with something like this: <asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderPageTitle" runat="server"> My Page Title
</asp:Content>
That should take care of most existing pages. If you have created a page from an almost empty master page you will see somtheing like the following at the top of the code: <%@ Page masterpagefile="../../_catalogs/masterpage/MyMasterPage.master" language="VB" title="My Page Title" inherits="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPartPage, Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=61e8bce111e9329c" meta rogid="SharePoint.WebPartPage.Document" %>
In this case you just change the value of title (here I put title="My Page Title") I hope this is what you were looking for. Try these out and see if they work. Good luck! Paul
Answer 23 Hi, I appreciate that this conversation is dated now - however did you manage to find a resolution to this problem? I currently have the exact same problem, as in the title in IE tab is appearing as "-" - I need this to reflect the actual name of the page! Thanks Answer 24 The only way I have found to do this with WSS is via Sharepoint Designer. Open the page in Sharepoint Designer, and then look at the page code. On the line after <asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderPageTitle" runat="server"> (at the top of the page) Insert the following: <SharePoint:ListProperty Property="Title" runat="server"/> -
<SharePoint:ListItemProperty Property="BaseName" MaxLength=40 runat="server"/> Have yet to see whether the title then appears in the search result - at the moment it just says 'Basic Page' | |