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8. On the Quick Access Toolbar, click Save.
Save
9. In the browser, open the publishing page you created at the start of this chapter.
On the Quick Launch bar, click Libraries, and then on the All Site Content page,
under Document Libraries, click Pages.
The All Documents view of the Pages library is displayed.
10. Click HR-Manager-EMEA.
Five rating stars appear on the page.
Troubleshooting If you hover the mouse pointer over the rating stars and they do not
change color, you need to enable rating settings on the Pages library. Navigate to the
Administration Web Page for the Pages library, and then under General Settings, click
Rating Settings. On the Rating Settings page, select Yes to allow items in this list to be
rated, and then click OK.
CLEAN UP Close the browser and SharePoint Designer.
Approving a Page Layout
For visitors to your publishing site to view pages, the page layout and the pages must
be checked in as a major version and approved. This is particularly true for the home
page, Default.aspx, which in a newly created publishing site is checked in only as a draft
version. If page layouts and pages are not checked in and approved, the Error: Access
Denied page is displayed to visitors to your site. Also, any components you use on your
page layout or page must be checked in and approved as a major version. These components
include images in the Site Collection Images library or reusable content stored in
the Reusable Content list at the top-level site of a site collection.
Tip When a publishing page is approved, its content is automatically checked for spelling and
components that are not approved are surrounded with a red border.
You can check in a page layout as a major version by using SharePoint Designer.
However, you must use the browser to approve the page layout.
In this exercise, you check in a page layout as a major version and then approve it.
SET UP Open the top-level site of your site collection in SharePoint Designer.