September 2011
Beginner
1608 pages
68h 25m
English
In the preceding exercise, you created an ASPX page named print.aspx that is used to create a custom action in a list in the current site (Web). However, if you want to use the same page for adding more print functionality to lists and libraries throughout your site collection then you need to save the file to a common location, such as the _layouts directory defined in the original solution. The /_layouts directory in SharePoint is a virtual (IIS) web directory shortcut that refers to the following file location on the Web front-end server:
%SystemDrive%\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS
Saving the file to the _layouts directory means ...
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