A First Look at Master Pages in R8.3 | Contensis User Groups 2015

A practical guide on migrating your site from the Legacy ASPX publishing model to the Master Pages publishing model being introduced in 8.3, which will drastically cut down publishing speeds when republishing templates.

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1. A first look at Master Pages in R8.3
2. Brett Jenkins Developer Product Development
3. Picture of something cool here Zenlights Lockdown 2015 Me & Robin
4. PUBLISHING R8.2 and below
5. Republishing the Base Template Today
6. This isn’t ideal!
7. A full weekend
8. How it works now
9. Parser merges the page and template together into a flat file
10. Flat File for every page on your website
11. The Problem arises when you change a Template or Base Template
12. A change to a Template requires every page that uses that Template to be republished
13. A change to the Base Template requires every page in the site to be republished
14. We listened to you
15. MASTER PAGES R8.3
16. Move parts of the current Parser to the Front End
17. Only update files which have changed
18. Dynamically merge on the front end
19. A change to a Template only requires one file to be republished
20. A change to the Base Template only requires each Template file to be republished Not the Pages Not the Pages
21. Invisible to Editors
22. Example
23. Republishing the Base Template Today
24. Republishing the Base Template with Master Pages
25. Reduction of 545 files to publish On the Zengenti website
26. Based on .NET Master Pages
27. Heavily Tested
28. Available in R8.3
29. Custom Code
30. Custom Code common changes Determining if a Placeholder has Content Referencing Controls outside of the current template Use of MyGetControl in Custom Code
31. New Custom Code Search
33. DEMO
34. Service provided by Professional Services
35. How do I upgrade to Master Pages?
36. Publishing Server Option
37. Publishing Server Option
38. Upgrade your Preview server
39. Create a new server to test on
40. Will require a full republish
41. Revertible
42. DEMO
43. General Publishing Improvements
44. DEMO
45. Control of HTML Markup
46. Easily add JavaScript or Styles to all pages or pages of a template
47. Custom Code is often used for
48. Master Templates
49. Content Type
51. Publishing Server Level
52. Template Level
53. DEMO
54. Save you and your users time
55. We hope you like it
56. Any questions?