Few posts ago – I was talking about a scenario where you might need to provision many sites with generic default.aspx page template. Of course, when you provision a site, a default.aspx page will not get a title on it’s own. You need to set the title of the page – otherwise your page header as well as title will be blank.
In my article, Setting automatic page title for SharePoint Default pages, I talked about a solution where you create a feature which is called right after site provisioning and that feature has a receiver setting the title of the page for you. However, there is a problem, if your template’s default.aspx page doesn’t have Title property defined (it’s ok for it to be blank) – your feature will error out and not set the title properly.
When provisioning your generic page based on a custom template, follow the format below:
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<Elements xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/“>
<Module Name=”Content” Url=”Pages” Path=”">
<File Name=”Default.aspx” Url=”Default.aspx” Type=”GhostableInLibrary”>
<Property Name=”ContentType” Value=”CrnBCGeneralPage” />
<Property Name=”PublishingPageLayout” Value=”~SiteCollection/_catalogs/masterpage/MyGenericLayout.aspx, MyGenericLayout;” />
<Property Name=”Title” Value=”"/>
</File>
</Module>
</Elements>
