In one of the older Article, we saw how to create a PageLayout using Visual Studio. A small add-on to that article is the one which we are going to see now.

I request the readers to read that article first and then reading this one is a worth. Moreover, here we are not going to discuss elaborately. Just a continuity of the older one as recently I met with this kind of requirement.

Basically a Layout which should be used for both the View and Edit Mode. The user will be editing the PublishingPageContent from this layout. As soon as they save the page, then the PublishingPageContent should be rendered on the same page.

For that, there is nothing much deviation from the older one. But the only thing is EditModePanel.

The aspx file would be something as below.

 <%@ Page Language="C#" Inherits="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingLayoutPage,Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing,Version=15.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
 
 <%@ Register TagPrefix="SharePointWebControls" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
 <%@ Register TagPrefix="WebPartPages" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
 <%@ Register TagPrefix="PublishingWebControls" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
 <%@ Register TagPrefix="PublishingNavigation" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Navigation" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
 <asp:content contentplaceholderid="PlaceHolderAdditionalPageHead" runat="server">
 	<SharePointWebControls:CssRegistration name="<% $SPUrl:~sitecollection/Style Library/~language/Themable/Core Styles/pagelayouts15.css %>" runat="server"/>
 	<PublishingWebControls:EditModePanel runat="server">
 		<!-- Styles for edit mode only-->
 		<SharePointWebControls:CssRegistration name="<% $SPUrl:~sitecollection/Style Library/~language/Themable/Core Styles/editmode15.css %>"
 			After="<% $SPUrl:~sitecollection/Style Library/~language/Themable/Core Styles/pagelayouts15.css %>" runat="server"/>
 	</PublishingWebControls:EditModePanel>
 	<SharePointWebControls:FieldValue id="PageStylesField" FieldName="HeaderStyleDefinitions" runat="server"/>
 </asp:content>
 <asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderPageTitle" runat="server">
 	<SharePointWebControls:FieldValue id="PageTitle" FieldName="Title" runat="server"/>
 </asp:Content>
 <asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderPageTitleInTitleArea" runat="server">
 	<SharePointWebControls:FieldValue FieldName="Title" runat="server"/>
 </asp:Content>
 <asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderTitleBreadcrumb" runat="server"> 
     <SharePointWebControls:ListSiteMapPath runat="server" SiteMapProviders="CurrentNavigationSwitchableProvider" RenderCurrentNodeAsLink="false" PathSeparator="" CssClass="s4-breadcrumb" NodeStyle-CssClass="s4-breadcrumbNode" CurrentNodeStyle-CssClass="s4-breadcrumbCurrentNode" RootNodeStyle-CssClass="s4-breadcrumbRootNode" NodeImageOffsetX=0 NodeImageOffsetY=289 NodeImageWidth=16 NodeImageHeight=16 NodeImageUrl="/_layouts/15/images/fgimg.png?rev=23" HideInteriorRootNodes="true" SkipLinkText="" />
 </asp:Content>
 <asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderMain" runat="server">
 	<div class="article article-body">
 		<PublishingWebControls:EditModePanel runat="server" CssClass="edit-mode-panel title-edit">
 			<SharePointWebControls:TextField runat="server" FieldName="Title"/>
 		</PublishingWebControls:EditModePanel>
 		<div class="article-content">
 			<PublishingWebControls:RichHtmlField FieldName="PublishingPageContent" HasInitialFocus="True" MinimumEditHeight="400px" runat="server"/>
 		</div>
 		
 	</div>   
 	 
 </asp:Content>
 

Happy Coding.

Sathish Nadarajan.

I faced one interesting requirement like, from a publishing page, I would like to know whether the page is in Edit Mode or in Design Mode. Based on that, we need to update one property value as well on the PageLayout. Let us see how to do that in SharePoint 2013 using Javascript.

On the PageLayout, I added a JS file. On the Document.Ready Event,

 $(document).ready(function ($) {
 
     var inDesignMode = document.forms[MSOWebPartPageFormName].MSOLayout_InDesignMode.value;
 
     if (inDesignMode == "1") {
         // page is in edit mode
         $(".MyPropertyValue").val("");
     }
     else {
         // page is in browse mode
     }
 });
 

The Layout would be the same when you are in EditMode as well as on the Design Mode. Though it is very simple, this will be very useful, when we deal with the PageLayouts and Javascript.

On the PageLayout, I have the Field as,

 <SharePointWebControls:TextField  runat="server" FieldName="MyProperty"  CssClass="MyPropertyValue" />

Happy Coding.

Sathish Nadarajan.