If you want to allow your users to view/update their personal Status on any page in SharePoint 2010 follow these simple steps. 1.) As with my previous post you need to add the following to the top of your custom master page right before the doctype: <%@ Register Tagprefix="SPSWC" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %> 2.) In your custom master page search for “s4-trc-container-menu” and add in the following before the “Welcome” control: <SPSWC:ProfilePropertyLoader runat="server" /> <SPSWC:StatusNotesControl runat="server"/> <SPSWC:ProfilePropertyImage PropertyName="PictureUrl" ShowPlaceholder="true" id="PictureUrlImage" runat="server"/> **Note that if you do not have the <SPSWC:ProfilePropertyLoader runat="server" /...
By Erik Swenson - Senior User Experience Designer