Tag Archive: master page

Feb 10 2009

Error When Trying to Delete a Master Page: “Server error: This item cannot be deleted because it is still referenced by other pages.”

I’ve had this happen often and I’ve usually just left the unused master pages, since they aren’t really hurting anything.  Today I finally decided to try to see if I could get rid of a pile of old copies of master pages I had lying around, and I found this Microsoft article which explains a workaround.  …

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Oct 24 2008

Displaying the Render Date and/or Time in SharePoint Pages

This is a simple enough task with a little JavaScript.  Inserting the script below into your master page will output the date and time in the simplest way possible when the page is rendered: If your language is American English, you will see the following: Fri Oct 24 18:19:06 EDT 2008.  Of course, if you’d …

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Jul 02 2008

How to Fix Recurring Meeting Workspace Error: ‘g_InstanceID’ is undefined

I was having a problem with Meeting Workspaces today.  The links to each meeting instance on the left Quick Launch were not working, and every time we clicked on one of them, we would get a JavaScript error: ‘g_InstanceID’ is undefined.  At first, I assumed that my CSS must be hiding a control that was required …

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Jun 23 2008

Branding for _layout Pages in SharePoint

I got a comment on one of my earlier posts about SharePoint branding (the look and feel of sites, including colors, fonts, page layouts, etc.).  I couldn’t respond directly due to the person’s communication settings on their Live Space, so I thought I’d answer it here: Marc, Great blog, but I was wondering if you …

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Aug 08 2007

SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) Branding CSS Tricks

Having done branding (meaning applying custom CSS to change colors, fonts, etc.) to quite a few MOSS Site Collections, I wanted to offer a few tips and tricks to keep things clean and easy to maintain.  I’ve mentioned some of these tips before, but I wanted to get them all into one post so that …

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