Hi,

I'm completely new to Master Pages, and I am trying to get them to work with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. In MOSS, you can specify what master page to use via the line

MasterPageFile=

Now, the standard, out-of-the-box reference is:

MasterPageFile=~masterurl/default.master

I have a new master page file called district.master created, and so I go into my default.aspx and put the following in

MasterPageFile=~masterurl/district.master

And then I go to the web site, and I get the error "The file or folder name contains characters that are not permitted. Please use a different name."

But if I then rename the district.master to default.master, it works fine... so I know my district.master file isn't messed up.

It appears that something is only allowing files by the name of default.master to act as master pages. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I may be able to get around this? I know this isn't a MOSS forum, but since it is built off of ASP.net 2.0, I thought maybe this is an ASP issue more than a MOSS issue.

Any assistance is appreciated.

Thanks,
Chris

I'm suffering from the same issue. Has anyone resolved this?

Thanks,

Andy.

You can only use 'default.master' or 'custom.master' as strings. If you download the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Software Development Kit (SDK) from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

and navigate to section: "Customizing Master Pages in Windows SharePoint Services", this will state the following:

Referencing the Master Page from a Content Page
Windows SharePoint Services provides several tokens to reference the master page—two dynamic tokens ("~masterurl/default.master" and "~masterurl/custom.master") and two static tokens ("~site/default.master" and "~sitecollection/default.master").

Hope this works for you. Suggest you use the token 'custom.master' to avoid an unsupported scenario. You may also upload the master pages to the MOSS gallery as per http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa830818.aspx.

The SDK could have been a bit clearer.