I’m having a devil of a time adding new items to my master pages - I know, I’m using inline design methods and FWP soddingly treats inflow elements as content… making it easy to break with the master.
If a child page is broken with the master - master elements like my page layers remain intact and connected, but you cannot add new layers to the master - the page link is broken. You have to - at page level - check the master content box which wipes out all the custom content you’ve made up to that point.
http://tinyurl.com/pqap9ud
I added a modal form request to this and six other pages - one at a time because the master page built for this site no longer links at a page level, though remaining layers of inline containers keep one or both of their connects. A simple form, with every change requiring 7 precise repeats - all the while that Master Page thing in the upper left corner keeps laughing at me.
http://tinyurl.com/pqap9ud
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I totally agree, the chance to mess up things is very, very high - and it happened to me, too. For now (even rumbling and grumbling) it is theoretically worth to treat the modal-request as “child-item” as you already do.
I long thought about the best way to do a more clever master/child strategy - and still haven’t found. Even a “hammer-strong-colored” master won’t prevent me from unwanted child-page alterations. (only an invisible child-page would do - making it visible by activating something whatsoever).
Just as a (dumb) side note:
Well - If I got the feeling to get back on the track, I try some crazy re-build re-copy and re-paste transferal things like:
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duplicating the master in a first step to master-modalrequest. This has then theoretically section-hed, modal-request (to add) and section-foot as content now?
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In the next step duplicate the first child-page (as back-up for custom-items) and connect the original with the new master-modalrequest. CMD-x the section-hero from the back-up, pasting in place of the new, repeat this for section-text.
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Repeat this procedure for all other child-pages
The downside of this is, that it takes you way more time than to treat the modal-request as single item. It would be only worth thinking, if there are MORE pages going to be expected to add in the (near) future.
Cheers
Thomas
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