Checkout Masterpages

[WelspunUSA]

I am unable to apply master pages (that work) to these pages:

• CheckoutPayment.aspx
• CheckoutShipping.aspx
• CheckoutReview.aspx
• Checkout1.aspx

Any help would be appreciated! As the strings and CSS and masterpage elements are not working.

[tpmorgsls]

Originally Posted by WelspunUSA

I am unable to apply master pages (that work) to these pages:

• CheckoutPayment.aspx
• CheckoutShipping.aspx
• CheckoutReview.aspx
• Checkout1.aspx

Any help would be appreciated! As the strings and CSS and masterpage elements are not working.

For what it's worth, these work perfectly fine in my version of MultiStore. I would ensure that the correct template is called in the @page directive:

MasterPageFile="~/App_Templates/YOURSKINNAMEHERE/template.master". It's possible you have an earlier beta than I do, but these work fine out of the box.

[Rob]

Master Page Skins are coming in v9 (monday)...don't even bother trying until then.

RE: multi-store (that beta is a v9 beta so that is why multi-store already has MP skins)...

release of v9 monday...

[WelspunUSA]

Well I found a solution by attaching the masterpage on PreInit:

protected override void OnPreInit(EventArgs e)
        {
            base.OnPreInit(e);
            Page.MasterPageFile = "~/App_Templates/Skin_" + SkinID.ToString() + "/template_nosides.master";
        }

Then just making sure the CSS calls are running off the root in the masterpage attached CSS correctly.

[John Morrison]

For what it is worth, rather then having to specify in each masterpage file in the directive as well as the code behind, we added this little mod to the skinbase.cs: replacing the original:

C#/VB.NET Code:

                    this.MasterPageFile = "~/App_Templates/" + SkinDirectory + "/" + m_TemplateName;
                    this.Theme = PageTheme; 


With this:

C#/VB.NET Code:

// If this.MasterPageFile is not the out of the box skin_1/template.master then the develper said what one he/she wants to use. so dont override it .. ever..
                if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(this.MasterPageFile) || this.MasterPageFile.ToLower() == "~/app_templates/skin_1/template.master" || IsMobile)
                {
                    this.MasterPageFile = "~/App_Templates/" + SkinDirectory + "/" + m_TemplateName;
                    this.Theme = PageTheme;
                }
                else
                {
                    String[] masterPageFile = this.MasterPageFile.Split('/');
                    m_TemplateName = masterPageFile[masterPageFile.Length-1];
                    this.Theme = masterPageFile[masterPageFile.Length - 2];
                } 


This way if you have taken the time to specify the MaterPageFile="~/App_Templates/Skin_99/MyCustomTemplate.master" the skin base will honor it.

The only side effect is that you can only do DYNAMIC template switching when the MasterPageFile= Directive is set to what aspdnsf uses out of the box "~/App_Templates/Skin_1/template.master"