Customise SharePoint v4 Master Page to Hide Recycle Bin and All Site Content Links

The following steps walk you through the process of making this common SharePoint customization:

• Create a custom master page SharePointMalaya.master from v4.master. For details information on how to create this master page, see Customise SharePoint v4 Master Page to Add Footer.
• Edit the CustomFooter.master file by clicking on the Edit File button.
• From the ribbon, click the Skewer Click button, as shown in Figure below. This enables you to see the CSS that is being applied to a specific object.

• With Skewer Click selected, hover over the area near where the Recycle Bin and All Site Content links are located. Move your mouse around the area and you should see the name PlaceHolderQuickLaunchBottom appear faintly.

• Select it and another window will open displaying a list of styles. Click the style called ul.s4-specialNav…, as shown in
  figure below.

• Before you can edit the CSS, you must first add a new panel to SPD. From the ribbon, click the Style tab and select the CSS Properties button.
• When the new panel opens, you’ll see the top section is called Applied Rules. The style you want to modify (.s4specialNavLinkList) should already be selected as shown in figure below.

• Right click the style and select New Style Copy.

• At the top of the New Style dialog shown in figure below, set the new style to be defined in the “Current page”. Be sure to check the box “Apply new style to document selection”. Then select the Layout category and set the “visibility” to “hidden”. Click OK.

• Save the changes made to the master page.
• Now open your site in the web browser, you’ll see that a footer has been applied to your site, as shown below:

Customise SharePoint v4 Master Page to Add Footer

The following are steps of creating a custom master page to add a footer by using SharePoint Designer 2010.

• Open your site in SharePoint Designer 2010 and click the Master Pages link in the Navigation pane.
• Right click v4.master and select Copy.

• Right click and paste another copy of the file into the Master Pages gallery.
• From the Master Pages gallery, click next to the filename for the master page that was just
  created. From the ribbon, click the Rename button. Rename the file SharePointMalayaFooter.master.

• Select the file SharePointMalayaFooter.master and then, from the ribbon, click the Edit File button.
• Ensure that either the Split or Code view is showing. Near line 624, after <SharePoint:DeveloperDashboard runat=“server”/>, add the following code snippet:

<div class="s4-notdlg" style="clear: both; background-color:#FEAD30; padding: 10px;">&copy; Copyright 2011 SharePoint Malaya</div>

• After you’ve made the change, save the fi le by clicking the Save icon in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. You will get a dialog that warns you that you are about to customize the file from the site definition. Click Yes to continue.

• Click the Master Page link again from the Navigation pane on the left to return to the Master Pages gallery.
• To apply the changes to the site, select SharePointMalayaFooter.master and then, from the ribbon, click the Set as Default button.
• Now open your site in the web browser, you’ll see that a footer has been applied to your site, as shown below:

SharePoint Designer 2010 Checking and Changing the Current User

One of the coolest feature of SharePoint Designer 2010 is the ability to check the user currently who logged in and to switch to a different user whenever you need to.

Remember the old SharePoint 2007 where you need to first login to the site, and then only you can open it using SharePoint Designer. Let say, you might be logged in with an administrator account. If you wanted to test something as a different user, how would you do that? Yeah, you’ll need to close the site and browser, login using different username via browser and open the site using SharePoint Designer 2007. Mmmmm… well, with SharePoint 2010 you don’t need to do that anymore!

To check the current user currently logged in, with open SharePoint Designer 2007, if you look in the bottom-left corner, you’ll see a tiny little person icon, as shown below:

Hovering over the icon with your mouse shows the name of the user currently logged in.

Clicking the icon allows you to log in with a different account.

SharePoint Designer 2007 is NOW a FREE Download

A great tool and very happy now it is free, heaps of THANKS Microsoft.

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