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custom server control on MOSS publishing page

The question was:

I've got a page in a MOSS 2007 publishing site that uses a layout (the page inherits from Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.TemplatedRedirectionPage),and I need to write a codebehind for this page, but still let the layout templating mechanism work.

My attempt was to write a class that inherits from Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.TemplatedRedirectionPage, and then change the page to inherit from my class. The page behaves normally (i.e., it worked as before), but the methods in my code behind class don't get called.

Anyone know what I should be doing?

But at this point, I'm pretty sure it won't work. My current direction is to try and place a custom server control on the publishing page, but I can't seem to get that working either. Is it just not possible to customize a publishing page except through its layout (which isn't an option here)?

Solution

  • As it turns out, the most straight-forward way to accomplish what I wanted was to drop a Web Part Zone on the page layout, and then use the SharePoint editing controls to add my control (which can be made into a web part trivially).

    All is well, and I didn't have to do anything freaky.