Imagine that you are designing a master page for your MOSS site and you have a requirement to have a functionality that is not possible out of the box. You brain storm on it and concludes that only custom web part can solve your problem.
But now your concern is how you can make this custom web part as part of your master page?
It’s easy! Just follow the steps given below to add a web part inside a master page.
1. Deploy the web part in your web application as you do normally.
2. Check whether the web part is showing up in the web part gallery.
3. Create a web part page by navigating to the site settings, create web part page.
4. Add your custom web part on the web part page.
5. Start SharePoint designer and open the newly created web part page.
6. You will now find two entries corresponding to the web part you added on the page
i. In the page declaration you will find a entry which looks something like this:
<%@ Register TagPrefix="WpNs0" Namespace="MyNamespace.MyClass" Assembly=" MyNamespace.MyClass, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null"%>
ii. Click on the web part section in the page and you will see an entry like this:
<WpNs0:WebPartName runat="server" ID="g_34cdbb90_38c6_4561_9182_8fbc0d2423a6" ExportMode="All" Title="WebPartTitle" __MarkupType ……………..
7. Copy these entries in separate notepad, and close the page opened in the SharePoint designer.
8. Now open the master page in SharePoint designer and add the first entry in the declaration section and second entry at the place where you want to add the web part to.
9. Save the page, check in and publish it and that’s it. Your job is done.
Do let us know in case you are facing any issue following the steps mentioned.
You can email us at sharepointkings@gmail.com
12 comments:
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Hi , Thanks a lot. It worked really well for me.
Is this the only way we can add a webpart to master page. By adding this way the webpart will become static. Also i have to add whole webpart section into wepart, which makes my masterpage big in number of lines whatever.
Just in case if we have a better way? Thanks again
Hi,
we made add the webpart and it worked great.
But, when we open any page on design view with share point designer it gives us a Master Page error. And if we remove the webpart it works fine, is there any way to fix this or to add a webpart on all pagesnot in the master page?
Thanks
_gil,
Its default behavior because your webpart execute some code which need sharepoint environment so its not work that way.
Hope new office (2010) may resolve this problem :)
Hi,
Thank you very much for this post. It worked fine for me also.
Buddhika
Thanks for this post it was very clearly written.
However I already have pages that are linked to the master but when I add the webpart in the default.master the changes are not replicated throughout the other pages...are you able to help?
Thanks :)
Bhavini,
it looks like you had not add webpart in different masterpage.
check which is your current masterpage and add webpart in that master page.
simplest way is check view source and check your webpart text appears or not:)
This is the url it is referring to, the master page is sitting within _catalogs/masterpage/default.master
would the following be the correct reference:
<%@ Page language="C#" MasterPageFile="~masterurl/default.master" Inherits="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPartPage,Microsoft.SharePoint,Version=12.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" meta:progid="SharePoint.WebPartPage.Document" meta:webpartpageexpansion="full" %>
?
bhavini,
you can check by opening that page sharepoint designer.
good artical,
I have aquestion.
default.master doesn't contains webpart zone. simply copying two entries will allow sharepoint.
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