Got a note from Eric today with a scenario I’d like to share here.
Say you have a SharePoint 2010 Publishing site with multiple pages in your Pages library:
As your users navigate through the site – you want to display the title of the page your user is currently on, rather than just the title of the site as it’s displayed by default.
Let’s take a look at how somehting like this can be done with minimal amount of effort.
I assume you’re running SharePoint publishing site; I’m using the following URL :http://intranet.contoso.com. In this example we will be modifying the master page using SharePoint Designer 2010. If your scenario calls for deployment of this customization to multiple environments – use Visual Studio solution package instead.
1. Open SharePoint Designer 2010 and your corresponding site, in my case: http://intranet.contoso.com
2. Under Site Objects click Masterpages and from the list of available masterpages pick the one your site is currently using, in my case v4.master
3. Acknowledge checkout of the master page.
4. Locate the following markup in your masterpage:
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderPageTitleInTitleArea" runat="server" />
5. Replace the code with the following:
<asp:Panel Visible="false" runat="server"> <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderPageTitleInTitleArea" runat="server" /> </asp:Panel> <SharePoint:ListItemProperty Property="Title" runat="server" />
This will effectively append the Title property of the current page to the rest of the breadcrumb. You can actually display other properties of the page, such as it’s approval status by using the ListItemProperty control. As long as those property values are set – you will see them displayed in the breadcrumb or any other area where you choose to use this control. If the property value is not set (blank title of the page) -nothing will be rendered for that control.
The final code will look like this:
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6. Save the master page in SharePoint Designer and return back to the site. If the page title has been set on the page you’re currently on – you will see the title in the breadcrumb area as shown earlier.
Enjoy!
