What?
How to associate a different master page than the default master page for a publishing page layout in SharePoint 2010?
Why?
There may be scenarios when certain pages in a SharePoint site require associations with a different master page(s)..
Typical examples could be pages that are required to be loaded inside SharePoint dialog boxes. These type of pages show up fine with minimal.master master page associated with them.
How?
Applying “minimal.master” master page to a page layout "CustomDialogPages.aspx" did not work.
When the page layout inherits from the 'PublishingLayoutPage' class the master page gets set on PreInit(), that's why it ignores what we put in the page directive.
There are 2 possible ways to get this to work:
How to associate a different master page than the default master page for a publishing page layout in SharePoint 2010?
Why?
There may be scenarios when certain pages in a SharePoint site require associations with a different master page(s)..
Typical examples could be pages that are required to be loaded inside SharePoint dialog boxes. These type of pages show up fine with minimal.master master page associated with them.
How?
Applying “minimal.master” master page to a page layout "CustomDialogPages.aspx" did not work.
When the page layout inherits from the 'PublishingLayoutPage' class the master page gets set on PreInit(), that's why it ignores what we put in the page directive.
There are 2 possible ways to get this to work:
