Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2010 Unleashed

Editing Publishing Pages in SharePoint Designer

Publishing pages, created from page layouts, typically cannot be directly edited in SharePoint Designer. If you attempt to edit a publishing page, then you see a dialog, as shown in Figure 15.61.

Figure 15.61 Dialog seen when attempting to directly edit a publishing page.

Using SharePoint Designer, you can detach a publishing page from its page layout. Doing so enables you to edit the publishing page, separate to its page layout, and perform additional editing tasks such as adding additional Web part zones and changing the master page. However, before you choose to detach publishing pages, there ...