Introduction
In a recent project I was asked to consult in, the team needed to create sub site/s for news or events. Developing for re-usability in SharePoint is something I find is lacking quite a bit in Development teams. Below I outline the solution I worked out for the project, that is also now a template that the Team can use in any similiar project. I will explain not only how to do it step by step but also continue to make this page layout as the default page layout of a publishing sub site. After that, make a content query in the root site to preview the news articles.
Finally, I will be using variation to create a similar publishing sub site in other languages. Step by step creation of News Page Layout using Content Type in SharePoint 2013.
How to Create a publishing sub site for news and using variation to creating the same site to other languages
- Firstly open Visual Studio 2013 and a create new project of type SharePoint Solutions…”SharePoint 2013 Empty Project”.
- Create new SharePoint 2013 empty project
- As we will deploy our solution as a farm solution in our local farm on our local machine.
Note: Make sure that the site is a publishing site to be able to proceed.
- Deploy the SharePoint site as a farm solution
- Our solution will be as the picture blew and we will add three folders for “SiteColumns”, “ContentTypes” and “PageLayouts”.
- SharePoint solution items
- Start by adding a new item to “SiteColumns” folder
- Adding new item to SharePoint solution
- After we adding a new site column and rename it, add the following columns as we need to make the news layout NewsTitle, NewsBody, NewsBrief, NewsDate and NewsImage.
- Adding new item of type site column to the solution
- Then add the below fields and you will note that I use Resources in the DisplayName and the Group.
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<Field ID="{9fd593c1-75d6-4c23-8ce1-4e5de0d97545}" Name="NewsTitle" DisplayName="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsTitle;" Type="Text" Required="TRUE" Group="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsGroup;"> </Field> <Field ID="{fcd9f32e-e2e0-4d00-8793-cfd2abf8ef4d}" Name="NewsBrief" DisplayName="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsBrief;" Type="Note" Required="FALSE" Group="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsGroup;"> </Field> <Field ID="{FF268335-35E7-4306-B60F-E3666E5DDC07}" Name="NewsBody" DisplayName="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsBody;" Type="HTML" Required="TRUE" RichText="TRUE" RichTextMode="FullHtml" Group="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsGroup;"> </Field> <Field ID="{FCA0BBA0-870C-4D42-A34A-41A69749F963}" Name="NewsDate" DisplayName="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsDate;" Type="DateTime" Required="TRUE" Group="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsGroup;"> </Field> <Field ID="{8218A8D9-912C-47E7-AAD2-12AA10B42BE3}" Name="NewsImage" DisplayName="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsImage;" Required="FALSE" Type="Image" RichText="TRUE" RichTextMode="ThemeHtml" Group="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsGroup;"> </Field> |
After That
- Create Content Type, we will be adding new Content Type to the folder ContentTypes
- Adding new item of type Content Type to SharePoint solution
- We must make sure to select the base of the content type “Page”.
- Specifying the base type of the content type
- Open the content type and add our new columns to it
- Adding columns to the content type
- Open the elements file of the content type and make sure it will look like this code below
Note: We use Resources in the Name, Description and the group of the content type.
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<!-- Parent ContentType: Page (0x010100C568DB52D9D0A14D9B2FDCC96666E9F2007948130EC3DB064584E219954237AF39) --> <ContentType ID="0x010100C568DB52D9D0A14D9B2FDCC96666E9F2007948130EC3DB064584E219954237AF39007A5224C9C2804A46B028C4F78283A2CB" Name="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsContentType;" Group="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsGroup;" Description="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsContentTypeDesc;" Inherits="TRUE" Version="0"> <FieldRefs> <FieldRef ID="{9fd593c1-75d6-4c23-8ce1-4e5de0d97545}" DisplayName="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsTitle;" Required="TRUE" Name="NewsTitle" /> <FieldRef ID="{fcd9f32e-e2e0-4d00-8793-cfd2abf8ef4d}" DisplayName="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsBrief;" Required="FALSE" Name="NewsBrief" /> <FieldRef ID="{FF268335-35E7-4306-B60F-E3666E5DDC07}" DisplayName="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsBody;" Required="TRUE" Name="NewsBody" /> <FieldRef ID="{FCA0BBA0-870C-4D42-A34A-41A69749F963}" DisplayName="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsDate;" Required="TRUE" Name="NewsDate" /> <FieldRef ID="{8218A8D9-912C-47E7-AAD2-12AA10B42BE3}" DisplayName="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsImage;" Required="FALSE" Name="NewsImage" /> </FieldRefs> </ContentType> |
- Add new Module to the PageLayouts folder. After that, we will find sample.txt file, then rename it “NewsPageLayout.aspx”
- Adding new module to SharePoint solution.
- Add the code below to this “NewsPageLayout.aspx”.
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<%@ Page language="C#" Inherits="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingLayoutPage, Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing,Version=15.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %> <%@ Register Tagprefix="SharePointWebControls" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %> <%@ Register Tagprefix="WebPartPages" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %> <%@ Register Tagprefix="PublishingWebControls" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %> <%@ Register Tagprefix="PublishingNavigation" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Navigation" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %> |
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<asp:Content ContentPlaceholderID="PlaceHolderPageTitle" runat="server"> <SharePointWebControls:FieldValue id="FieldValue1" FieldName="Title" runat="server"/> </asp:Content> <asp:Content ContentPlaceholderID="PlaceHolderMain" runat="server"> |
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<H1><SharePointWebControls:TextField ID="NewsTitle" FieldName="9fd593c1-75d6-4c23-8ce1-4e5de0d97545" runat="server"> </SharePointWebControls:TextField></H1> <p><PublishingWebControls:RichHtmlField ID="NewsBody" FieldName="FF268335-35E7-4306-B60F-E3666E5DDC07" runat="server"> </PublishingWebControls:RichHtmlField></p> <p><SharePointWebControls:NoteField ID="NewsBrief" FieldName="fcd9f32e-e2e0-4d00-8793-cfd2abf8ef4d" runat="server"> </SharePointWebControls:NoteField></p> <p><SharePointWebControls:DateTimeField ID="NewsDate" FieldName="FCA0BBA0-870C-4D42-A34A-41A69749F963" runat="server"> </SharePointWebControls:DateTimeField></p> <p><PublishingWebControls:RichImageField ID="NewsImage" FieldName="8218A8D9-912C-47E7-AAD2-12AA10B42BE3" runat="server"> </PublishingWebControls:RichImageField></p> |
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</asp:Content> Add the following code to the elements file of the “NewsPageLayouts” module. <Module Name="NewsPageLayout" Url="_catalogs/masterpage" List="116" > <File Path="NewsPageLayout\NewsPageLayout.aspx" Url="NewsPageLayout.aspx" Type="GhostableInLibrary" IgnoreIfAlreadyExists="TRUE" ReplaceContent="TRUE" Level="Published" > <Property Name="Title" Value="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsPageLayout;" /> <Property Name="MasterPageDescription" Value="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsPageLayout;" /> <Property Name="ContentType" Value="$Resources:cmscore,contenttype_pagelayout_name;" /> <Property Name="PublishingPreviewImage" Value="~SiteCollection/_catalogs/masterpage/$Resources:core,Culture; /Preview Images/WelcomeSplash.png, ~SiteCollection/_catalogs/masterpage/$Resources: core,Culture;/Preview Images/WelcomeSplash.png" /> <Property Name="PublishingAssociatedContentType" Value=";#$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsContentType;; #0x010100C568DB52D9D0A14D9B2FDCC96666E9F2007948130EC3DB064584E219954237AF39007A5224C9C2804A46B028C4F78283A2CB;#"> </Property> </File> </Module> |
- Don’t forget to add the Resources folder, then add the resource file with the name “SPWorld_News.resx” as we used it in the previous steps and add the below keys to it.
- News : News
- NewsBody : News Body
- NewsBrief : News Brief
- NewsContentType : News Content Type
- NewsContentTypeDesc : News Content Type Desc.
- NewsDate : News Date
- NewsGroup : News Group
- NewsImage : News Image
- NewsPageLayout : News Page Layout
- NewsTitle : News Title
- Finally, deploy the solution.
- The next steps will explain how we add the “news content type” to the page layout through SharePoint wizard. We will do these steps pragmatically in the next article.Note: We will do the steps from “A” to “D” pragmatically in the next article without the need to do it manually from SharePoint.
- Go to Site Contents then Pages , Library, Library SettingsOpening library setting of the page library
- Add the news content type to the page layout
- Adding existing content type to the pages library then,
- Selecting the content type to add it to pages library
- Go to Pages Library, Files, New Document, select News Content Type
- Adding new document of the news content type to pages library
- Write the page title
- Creating new page of news content type to pages library.
- Open the page to edit it. Pages library contains new page of news content type
- Now we can see the page Layout after we add the title, Body, Brief, date and image. Finally click Save the news
