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John Aage Andersen
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Sep 20, 2016

Site Pages, which page layout is used? and where are they?

We have several site pages that seems to be based on the Wiki Page. As far as we understand, every page in our site is based on the Master Page, a Page Layout and the Page itself. Please correct us ...
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Sep 20, 2016

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

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    John Aage Andersen
    Iron Contributor
    Sep 21, 2016

    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

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      Deleted
      Sep 21, 2016

      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.

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        John Aage Andersen
        Iron Contributor
        Sep 21, 2016

        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

         

         

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