Hi everyone,

I am using Sharepoint 2007 Full version (MOSS and WSS) at work, but i can't find any simple solution for the question standing below:

I have the following question:

- I want to change the banner in my masterpage for every of the 6 aspx pages.
To get a different banner for every page (for example page news has a banner related to news, page contact has a banner related to contact etc.) you can make 6 different masterpages, but i don't want that.
As soon as there are more projects (websites) with the same demand of different banners for every aspx page within a website you will get hundreds of masterpage files on your server (and it will use extra harddiskspace).

I only want to use 1 masterpage for the 6 aspx pages...

So 1 masterpage with a dynamic banner for all the 6 aspx pages.
for example:

Page1 (Home) -> Banner1

Page2(Company) -> Banner2

Page3(Events) -> Banner3

Page4(Products) -> Banner4

Page5(News) -> Banner5

Page6(Contact) -> Banner6

Is the only option to build a custom webpart in Visual Studio and place that in the header of the masterpage or is there a much easier solution(maybe something builtin)?

I hope there is an answer to the above question/problem.

Thanks for the time you are taking to read this and for answering this post.

you can declare several content zones in your master page, you are not limited to 1 content zone and static elements.

that way, you can populate the top content zone (i.e. banner) with a different flash on each of your 6 pages as you do with the main content of your page.

Hi Nq

Listen I'm just a beginner, but I figured why not give it a shot:) Can't you use a session variable and set it in each page's PageLoad event to the name of the respective page? Then you must just figure out a way how to use that variable name to load your flash banner...

I'm probibly gonna get slaughtered for this reply!!!

Cheers

Hi Nq,

one way is code for all the banners in the master page and hide baneer no. 2 to 6 i.e. make visible=false.

if u know, u can access master page variables from the content page. so when u click company page (may be a hyperlink u used to access it), make baneer 2 visible and remaining banners invisible. And so on.

I think this may fix ur problem.

Hi,

Base on your description, you want to change the banner that is on the master page according to the current page file, right?

You can try to use this code Request.RawUrl(); in the master page codebehind to get the file name of the current page, then change the banner.

Or you can change the banner in every content page:

For example:

Image image= (Image)this.Master.FindControl("ctl00$Image");

Image.ImageURL = "~/image/001.jpg";

Hope it helps.