The Windows 8 Start menu allows users to pin sites from Internet Explorer as tiles. SharePoint 2013 provides a simple control to manage how the tile looks and what icon to use. In this recipe, we will customize the tile settings with our customized master page.
Follow these steps to customize the Windows 8 Start menu tile for pinning sites using a master page:
Open SharePoint Designer.
Select Open Site. Enter the full URL to the SharePoint site and select Open.
In the list of files in the Master Pages library, make a copy of
seattle.master
(for our example, we have renamed itSeattle_Windows8Tile.master
).Check out the new
Seattle_Windows8Tile.master
master page.Open the
Seattle_Windows8Tile.master
master page.Locate the
<SharePoint:SPPinnedSiteTile>
element.Provide a custom image URL and hex color using the following code:
<SharePoint:SPPinnedSiteTile...