Note on Opening Publishing Sites and Pages

If you’ve previously used SharePoint Designer 2007 to edit SharePoint Server 2007 sites then you are probably familiar with the prompt shown in Figure 7.21, which you received when attempting to launch the site in SharePoint Designer from the home page of the site within a browser, where that page was a publishing page. Instead, you needed to either edit the page via the browser or edit the corresponding publishing page layout in SharePoint Designer.

Figure 7.21 Dialog served when attempting to directly open a publishing page from within SharePoint.

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Although still present in SharePoint Server 2010 sites, ...

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