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SharePoint 2013 WCM Advanced Cookbook

By : JOHN CHAPMAN
Book Image

SharePoint 2013 WCM Advanced Cookbook

By: JOHN CHAPMAN

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
SharePoint 2013 WCM Advanced Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Customizing the Windows 8 Start menu tile for pinning sites using a master page


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.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to customize the Windows 8 Start menu tile for pinning sites using a master page:

  1. Open SharePoint Designer.

  2. Select Open Site. Enter the full URL to the SharePoint site and select Open.

  3. From the Navigation pane, select Master Pages.

  4. In the list of files in the Master Pages library, make a copy of seattle.master (for our example, we have renamed it Seattle_Windows8Tile.master).

  5. Check out the new Seattle_Windows8Tile.master master page.

  6. Open the Seattle_Windows8Tile.master master page.

  7. Locate the <SharePoint:SPPinnedSiteTile> element.

  8. Provide a custom image URL and hex color using the following code:

    <SharePoint:SPPinnedSiteTile...