Dynamic Sharepoint Rebranding Module

General

For detailed description please refere to: http://www.pings.dk/blog

I have finally taken the time to assemble a (fully working) Dynamic Sharepoint Rebranding Module (DSRM). The idea is based on a HTTPModule that dynamically change the Master Page (and CSS) on the fly. This approach has several advantages but my initial requirements is that it should support:

• Dynamic re-branding of Master Pages
• Dynamic appending of custom CSS
• Replacing one Master Page with another like default.master => company.master
• Highly configureable from the web.config with a somewhat intuitive configuration model including priorities on matching.
• Rebranding of Master/CSS via query string parameters (like ?PrinterFriendly=true).
• Must be compatible with Publishing Pages (many HTTPModules branding attempts out there are not)
• Must be compatible with Application Pages
• Supports Add-on model for Interceptors like QueryStringInterceptor (included in Beta 0.0.2).

Web.config sample

NB: Sample is included in the binaries download.

First you need to register the new branding section like this:



Then this is how the actual branding section look likes:



And finally locate the <httpModule> section in the web.config and register the HTTPModule like this:

<httpModules>
   ...
   <!-- Required Section -->
   <Add name="DSRM" type="AKJ.Sharepoint.Branding.HTTPModules.SharepointBrandingModule, AKJ.Sharepoint.Branding, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=adda199c4fc7387f" />
   ...
</httpModules>  

Branding Examples

Frontpage (Before/After)

Site Settings (Before/After)

Site Settings / Statistics (Before/After)