Have you ever tried to assign a custom master page to the system pages in SharePoint?
This is what I used to do up to now.
Create a feature that deploys the master pages.
add in the onet.xml to the configuration with id 0 the following two lines:
MasterUrl=~SiteCollection/_catalogs/masterpage/My.master
CustomMasterUrl=”~SiteCollection/_catalogs/masterpage/My.master”
Deploy the solution.
Check that the masterpages are there and that they are used by the site created using my template template … Only the default master page is set but the system master page isn’t set.
I then had a look at the following page
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687712.aspx
What did I do wrong?
I created my module within a feature.
instead of adding the following to my onet.xml.
[code lang=text]
<Module Name=”MyMasterPages” Url=”_catalogs/masterpage”>
<File Url=”My.master” Type=”GhostableInLibrary”>
</File>
</Module>
[/code]
So what went wrong then?
It’s all about the order that things get activated. I was creating the master page after the site was created using my site collection feature.
Adding the master page using a module in the onet.xml resolved this issue.
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Pieter Veenstra
Is your business still running on paper trails, sprawling Excel files, or ageing Access databases? There's a better way — and I can show you exactly what it looks like. I'm the Technical Director of Vantage 365, a Microsoft solutions consultancy working with clients across the UK, the Netherlands, and worldwide. For over 30 years I've been turning messy, manual business processes into clean, automated systems that save time, reduce errors, and give teams the visibility they need to make better decisions. SharePains is not just any blog run by a Microsoft MVP. Have you ever used Try-Catch in Power Automate? The original post about Try-Catch in Power Automate can still be found on this site, https://sharepains.com/2018/02/07/try-catch-finally-in-power-automate-flow/ Or have you ever used the Pieter’s method to avoid variables and speed up your flows? https://sharepains.com/2020/03/11/pieters-method-for-advanced-in-flows/ You can contact me using contact@sharepains.com