Designer 2013 - Design Manager: Page layout created is not showing up in Designer

Question

Hello everyone,
I greatly need assistance. I have wasted over 1/2 a day trying to fix this issue.
I have a site with a subsite. I'm customizing the subsite using the Design Manager. I've been through all of the steps and now I've created a Page Layout (step 6). I created the html and it generated the aspx. I have a drive mapped to the master page
gallery. The files are showing up in the mapped drive. However, when I go into Designer 2013 and click Master Pages, the files aren't there. This happened to me last week and then suddenly, almost magically if you will, the files were there. This was after
refreshing several times, closing Designer and opening it up. All the little tricks you have to use with Designer every now and then. So today I was repeating the process and the files aren't showing up again. I've been refreshing for 4 hours, closed Designer,
even rebooted. To no avail. I disconnected the mapped drive and reconnected. Nothing.
I have the correct permissions. I'm not only the site collection administrator but I'm also the SP Admin.
Assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Lisa

Answer 1

you have a subsite in a site collection •the publishing feature is activated in the subsite, but not in the site collection •you want to edit/add page layouts on the site collection level, to be used within your subsite •when you open the
site collection in SharePoint Designer, you can't see Page Layouts in the Site Objects panel You now have 2 options: you can either activate the publishing feature in the site collection (and the Page Layouts link comes back), or you can use the All Files
link and browse to the master pages and page layouts library (_catalogs > masterpage.) Either option will do, unless you really don't want the publishing feature in the site collection
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13303764/page-layouts-not-available-in-sharepoint-designer
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/864184b1-d8d0-448f-8d3b-667cb48fb75c/sharepoint-designer-not-showing-master-pages-or-page-layouts-in-site-objects?forum=sharepointadminprevious
or
go to Site Actions -> Site
Settings in the upper left corner.
Under "Site Collection Administration" click on "Site
Collection Features".
Look for "SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure" and
activate it. It might take a moment to load.
Next return to "Site Settings" and click on "Manage
Site Features"
Look for "SharePoint Server Publishing" and activate
it. It might take a moment to load.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12226856/im-missing-page-layout-button-on-sharepoint-2010-ribbon