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Site Pages, which page layout is used? and where are they?
If you would open the page in SharePoint designer and go to advanced mode you will end up in the correct Page Layout
But be aware you are changing it for every body who uses the page layout best practice would be to make a copy of the Layout in a new pagelayout and use that one so it does not interfer with default page layouts pushed by MS.
Kr,
Paul
Thanks Paul
In Sharepoint Designer, in Site Pages, located the page "SD-team.aspx", in the file settings it states "This file is based on a file from the site's definition". Thus this file/page should be based on a Page Layout.
Using right-click to open the context menu, I see the option "Edit File in Advanced Mode" - is that the one you mean?
Using the option open the file/page in the Editor, showing the code. In the code I can read a namespace "Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages" - does that mean that this file/page is based on the Web Part Page Layout?
Still not able to see any Page Layout with a name like that in any of the site locations/folders?
Would it be possible for you to show the steps to identify the Page Layout and where it is located?
Kind regards, John
Hi John,
looked a bit more i guess this blog is a good start point.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/kaevans/2011/04/02/page-layouts-in-sharepoint/
If you go to this link https://tennant.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/sitemanager.aspx
you can browse to the masterpage gallery and see which pagelayouts there are to edit/copy and edit
you can also see how many contenttypes are connected to different pagelayouts.
Thanks again Paul
The information doesn't really helps me. SharePoint 2010 is way to different from SharePoint Online! The sitemanager just shows the list of page layouts. But none of those are associated with the page for which I need to modify the page layout. I did try to modify all of them, but none of them affects the page! Reverted all changes :)
In the Site Pages library, when I want to create a new page, a Wiki Page, it uses a specific template from the Wiki Page content type "/_layouts/15/CreateWebPage.aspx".
I have no idea what this file does, which page layout it actually uses and how to change it or find whatever page layout I need to change. The location also cannot be opened!
Thanks again, I do hope someone has the information :)
John
One of the ways to validated which page layout is used on SharePoint 2010, if to go to page requested, and edit the page. Once you are in edit mode, click on the page tab , on the top ribbon you should have the Page layout option available ( when the page template is used) scrolling on through the options you should be able to see the one that is selected based on the square surrounding one of the page layout. if the PageLayouts option is not showing you are probably using out of the box Wiki or WebPart page based on out of the box default PageLayouts for those page templates.
- Just my two cents for the following statement: "As far as we understand, every page in our site is based on the Master Page, a Page Layout and the Page itself." This is not actually true for Wiki Pages...it's true for Publishing pages that allow to change the layout easily as described by Paul...however, for Wiki pages I believe this is not possible because they are not using actually a page layout
