So today i have released onto Codeplex a SharePoint 2010 Masterpage design which is inspired from the Metro UI of Windows 8. The design has the following features:
- Liquid Layout
- Cufon Integration
- Jquery Accordion Quicklaunch with Sub Item Count
- Full Solution with single Site Feature to activate branding (Thanks CKS:Dev Team)
- Custom Site Settings Action to choose one of three colour schemes (Green, Blue & Red)
If you would please leave me comments be it positive or negative they are all welcome. I hope you enjoy and if you come across any bugs please let me know and i can fix them.
Download
To download the wsp please click here and get it from our CodePlex Site. Enjoy 
Hey Chris, great template, I love it! I’ve been trying to integrate a mega menu into this design and can’t seem to get it working correctly. Any plan on adding that feature or have any suggestions for me?
Thanks!
Hey Chris,
Thank you for the great work you have done and for providing this theme for free! It looks amazing!
I applied it and everything works great, except that it picks up pages and subsites, even though I have unchecked these options under Navigation in Site Settings.
Any way I can fix this?
Thanks!
Sri
Hi Chris, Thanks for this great template. It’s fantastic. I have the same question that a couple of people asked earlier. I want to remove pages and subsites that are showing at the bottom of the blue nav bar even though I have unchecked these options under Site Settings/Navigation? Thanks, Ann
Hi,
I am in the process of finishing some updates to the masterpage which will be released soon.. Keep your eyes on the blog or follow me on twitter.
I find a bug, when the calendar list. Please check the posisiton button add on days event. Thanz on advance. Regards
Great masterpage! One thing I am trying to do is hard code a new section above the quick links. When I do I see the content in SharePoint designer but when I load the page in the browser it is not shown. Any suggestions for me?
great work, i have tried applying the metro ui, but my normal users feedback on they are not getting the same metro page i have (as admin), the pages are breaking apart, did i missed out anything after applying it .. thanks..
Hi Christopher,
First of all, great solution!
I have imported your solution as a farm solution and it works very well.
I am, however stuck on another issue. I have a parent site and a subsite, their are some users which have only the permission to have access to the subsite. When I set up this security, he has also no rights to the masterpage and the lay-out is gone.
All subsites are created via a site template, is it possible to store the custom masterpages in the site template?
Many thanks!
I would always ensure that you provide permissions on the masterpage gallery and the style library. If you dont do this then you could have other permission problems using sharepoint down the line.
If you can provide me with some screenshots that would be useful. Thanx
Hi Chris! first of all thanks for yout nice solution.
im write to advice you about a “problem” with that
When activate your solution my lync integration flaw away…no more presence dot on people and no more lync widget are show. If i disable the solution all thing come back with no problem.
any solution? Thanks anyway!
Hi Christopher, great work! This style block my Lync IE Plugin so I can’t see the status of my users. Do you yave any idea about that? Thank you.
Thank you for this. I will look into a fix very soon. Could you confirm for me which version you are using? Sandbox or Standard version? Thanks.
Thank you for the feedback. I have just had a similar issue reported so will look into this asap. Are you able to let me know which version you are using? Standard or Sandbox? Thanks
Standard.. but I found the problem. There is a javascript that block lync activex. Line 55-58. Thanks.
Hi Christopher,
It was indeed a security problem, the user had not enough permissions.
Thanks for the help!
Hi Christopher,
Could you explain to me how I can hide the quick launch from all pages? We are using your great template for a new dashboard project and need that extra space. Everything I’ve tried has not been successful. Any help would be appreciated.
-Troy
Hi,
is there any solution to the “there are subsites listed in the leftbar Navigation even if i unchecked them” – Problem? with left nav bar i mean the navigation list on the right
Greetz
There is an update coming soon which will correct this issue..sorry for the problem and i will let you know via here when updated
Will this work in the SharePoint 2010 environment? Looks great but cant get either versions to run online…
It is designed as a SharePoint 2010 Masterpage. Where are you trying to install it, what version of SharePoint (Foundation or Server) and what steps have you tried.
I hav problems with the navigation of an enterprise wiki page. It is not updated with new wiki when i use the new masterpage.
I love it! Can you guys add “Gray” as an option ?
Thanks!
This works in PS but when.
I tried editing it then when I deploy using VS 2010 I get this
Test01: Failed to load receiver assembly “LifeInSharePoint.Metro, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=4795ea3fbf930999″ for feature “LifeInSharePoint.Metro_Feature1″ (ID: 4b9006cc-b461-41ab-aedf-812f78be456f).: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly ‘LifeInSharePoint.Metro, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=4795ea3fbf930999′ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
File name: ‘LifeInSharePoint.Metro, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=4795ea3fbf930999′
at System.Reflection.Assembly._nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, Assembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection)
at System.Reflection.Assembly.InternalLoad(AssemblyName assemblyRef, Evidence assemblySecurity, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean forIntrospection)
at System.Reflection.Assembly.InternalLoad(String assemblyString, Evidence assemblySecurity, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean forIntrospection)
at System.Reflection.Assembly.Load(String assemblyString)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFeatureDefinition.get_ReceiverObject()
WRN: Assembly binding logging is turned OFF.
To enable assembly bind failure logging, set the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog] (DWORD) to 1.
Note: There is some performance penalty associated with assembly bind failure logging.
To turn this feature off, remove the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog].
Hiding the sites…
I added this:
.leftpanelborder ul.root>li:nth-of-type(n+4){
display: none;
}
to the styles.css and now it only shows the first 3 items down the left-hand side plus the recycle bin and All Site Content.
This works in every browser I tested – except for IE. If we switch IE to “IE 9 Standards” then this works but the calendar controls in other areas of Sharepoint break.
head->desk->ouch.
Thanxxxxxx Christopher Great work
after deploy solution i found error in left navigation audience not work after adding groub
thanks
Hi,
Love this master page and it would be nice if the side navigation could be minimize like the MS Outlook.
I know there’s another master page that can totally hide the side navigation but I simply like this one thou.
Just installed, looks great, is there any support for Metro UI Tiles?
Hi Chris,
How do I change the color to the supported Green color, I don’t see the customer action under “Site Settings”.
Hi,
How to make the side navigation collaspsible like the one in Sharepoint 2013?
I am a novice in sharepoint. I am using Sharepoint 2010 Foundation.
I’ve added this to webpart/solution gallery, then my entire sharepoint portal crashed with below issue.
Can you give directions on how i can solve this problem and what could be the root cause.
I’m unable to find the file on file system as well
/_catalogs/masterpage/LifeInSharePoint2013.master :
Server Error in ‘/’ Application.
——————————————————————————–
Parser Error
Description: An error occurred during the parsing of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific parse error details and modify your source file appropriately.
Parser Error Message: The expression prefix ‘SPUrl’ was not recognized. Please correct the prefix or register the prefix in the section of configuration.
Source Error:
Line 40:
Line 41:
Line 42: <SharePoint:CssRegistration ID="CssRegistration1" name="” After=”” runat=”server”/>
Line 43:
Line 44:
Source File: /_catalogs/masterpage/LifeInSharePoint2013.master Line: 42
I noticed this can only be deployed to a site collection. anyway I can do this just for certain sites. I wanted to edit your source code to activate the site features instead of deploying it to a site collection level. would that be hard? I have 6 years SP experience. im looking at the receiver now but I just don’t have much wsp development experience but I do have a lot of asp.net experience. I only want this feature on certain sites and unfortunately those sites are under a site collection that I do not want branded. I also know how to edit your css files. on big deal there. thanks for the nice solution
Hi,
Great job, I love this masterpage.
How can I change the color from blue to orange?
Thanks in advanced.
You can modify the css of the masterpage (stored in the style library) to change the colours to the orange you require. If you use IE colour picker to find out the “blue” used you will be able to do a simple find / replace to get the desired result.
Brian stated: Second, the Audience Targetting in the Navigation doesn’t seem to apply. Any fixes for this?
As an FYI, that is my experience as well. Thanks for the effort in making MetroUI, and then freely distributing it.
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the Master Page, it’s great
I’ve hit the issue that scrolling on a calendar page throws out the +Add link. I’ve googled and found several versions of the same fix, but none of them work.
I’m running the latest version from Codeplex.