SharePoint site templates are pre-built definitions designed around a particular business need. You can use these templates as they are to create your own SharePoint site and then customize the site as much as you like. You’re probably familiar with the default site templates, like Team Site, Blog ...
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How to best duplicate a site?
I'd like to confirm the "best practices" of what I am trying to achieve.
Currently, I have 1 SP 2010 application with 1 site that has users, (grouped appropriately) that have different permissions ...
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SharePoint 2010 site collection template not visible
I have a document center of which i would like to create a template for re use. I have used Todd's guide to do this and it's all working fine. Except when I try to include the site content in the ...
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Importing SP 2007 wiki into SP 2010 to remove “page has been customized from its template” message
We have migrated a very out-of-the-box SP2007 to SP2010 (DB attach) and have performed the visual upgrade for all sites.
Now when I open some wiki pages I get the notification: "The current page has ...
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How do I Activate the Signatures Workflow?
After fixing the intranet site that was deleted, I am re-establishing some pages that were lost. I have a site template that I created and when I try to use it on the top level site, I receive the ...
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SharePoint 2010 - Install Site Template using Powershell script
I want to install site template in SharePoint 2010.
Basically i want to know how use install-spwebtemplate
wsp name : SPT_SiteTemplate.wsp
Name : SPT_SiteTemplate
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Redo navigation after adding publishing pages
I added some publishing pages after a site was provisioned (using web template, so I am already adding to nav using in onet.xml).
The pages I am creating are in the navbar of the onet.xml. But they ...
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Helpdesk Template - See My Service Requests in My Site
I have set up the Helpdesk 'fantastic 40' template on our portal and can add service requests etc.
I can also see that in the site's child pages I have access to a whole lot of web parts such as ...
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Ghost existing file in hive to new site from custom template?
I'm developing a Web Template, extending the Blank template. I had some code in a web feature receiver to place webparts on the web's default.aspx but ran into a similar issue to this: the page ...
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Converting a Publishing Page site template to a WSS-compatible template
I am in the process of determining whether a couple of sites can be moved from a full MOSS server to a free WSS server. The current process has been to turn off all known MOSS-only features, export ...
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how can I add a link in the top nav bar in onet.xml for a custom page?
I a custom site definition, I have two modules :
the classic default module to provision the default.aspx
a custom mypage to provision a custom mypage.aspx
I want to add in the top navigation bar ...
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How do I add the top link navigaton bar to the Enterprise Search Center?
The Enterprise Search Center appears to use the minimal master page, and has no top link navigation. This seems a bit silly and is hard to use if you use the Search Center as a subsite in a larger ...
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Error When Instantiating a Site Template in SharePoint 2010: “The site template requires that the feature {068bc832-4951-11dc-8314-0800200c9a66}…”
I gave a talk at the most recent BASPUG meeting about developing in the Middle Tier. I used a SharePoint 2010 site for the demos and would like to make it available to the folks who are interested in ...
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Creating a list with dynamic name based on site name
I am planning to create a site template where-in I will have lists and document libraries. However I was thinking to make the names of the lists and libraries as dynamic which will pick the name from ...
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How to create a WSP file without using wspbuilder for Site Definition
I have a folder with following structure, I wonder how can I create a wsp file for it, and it deploy the site definition for me,
structure
- XML
- -> ONET.xml
- default.aspx
- ...
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Do I need to enable the publishing features to change a Team Site's master page?
When building a SharePoint 2010 site, we have a root Publishing site that has been branded up using a custom Master Page.
We'd now like to add some Team Sites below the publishing site, and have our ...
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Blog site template missing from the New SharePoint Site creation page
At the portal level in SP 2007 (http://portal/) , I go to create a new Blog subsite (http://portal/blog/) by using the "Create -> Sites and Workspaces". When I got to make the "Blog" template ...
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Creating new SharePoint 2010 Sites with the old/v3 UI?
I have a SharePoint 2010 Server that is running an upgraded SharePoint 2007 Content Database. Thanks to the v3/v4 Layout Support, all the "old" Pages still use SharePoint 2007-style layout.
However, ...
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Employee Leave Balances
How can I use the Absence Request and Vacation Schedule Management template to keep track of everyone's balances.
Say an employee had 15 days of leave available on May 1. For each day of vacation ...
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Can a list be made available to column in subsite?
I am creating a project management site template. This template will be used to create PM subsites in our corporate PM site. In the subsite task list, I want to add a "Work Area" column that is a ...
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Site Template with Custom Pages: css, javascript?
If I create some custom pages that include custom html, css and jquery and this page exists within a site that is used as a site template, will that cause issues? From my limited experience with this ...
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Changing template after a site has been created (SharePoint 2007)
I have created a site using the option "Blank Site" under the "Collaboration" tab, is it possible to change the template to "Publishing Site" under the "Publishing" tab while still preserving the ...
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How to find out if a web template is missing from a site collection
Is there any utility out there that can tell me if there is any custom web template missing or faulty from a site collection,
I keep getting error "WEB template #00000 not found" while importing a ...
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Error: While creating new Site from a Site template
I am getting following error while creating new Site from a Site template.
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sharepoint 2010 - get name of custom site template
How to get the complete name of the feature [see last 2 name , basically they are custom created templates]
Can i change the name which is basically the feature id with the custom name ?
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Error message when creating a site template
I have a page and I am trying to create a template because it will be use multiple times (Parent) and will have sub-sites (Children). I went to Site Actions --> Site Settings --> Site Actions --> Save ...
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Adding module to add files to a list
I added a module
The module is in the web feature
Now when I provision a site it tells me "The specified list does not exist". I am creating the list in the onet.xml
Now what to do?
This is from ...
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Site Template won't show up on publishing site when creating a site
I have a site template and I was able to deploy it to the farm. I can see the template when I create a site from a team site. I don't even see that option when I create a site from publishing site. ...
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Which site template to use for embedding existing applications?
I'm currently going through the SharePoint Planning and Architecture documentation, planning a SharePoint installation. I'm on the section "Determine Sites and Subsites".
One of the things suggested ...
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STS site definition different “default.aspx” - (default document in site collection) (Solved)
I have an STS-based site collection and I have changed the "default.aspx" default document reference as follows:
My onet.xml:
<Module Name="Default" Url="" Path="">
<File ...
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Custom site template is messing native templates
I'm creating some site site collections using this command :
$url = http://somewhere/sites/coll
$me = "${env:userdomain}\${env:username}"
$email = "${env:username}@corp.com"
STSADM.EXE -o createsite ...
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how can I modify the focus on content button in my own template (SP 2013)?
I'm currently creating a own template for my page. I can't figure out how the focus on content button works:
If I past in the following snippet from the seatle.html template the focus on content ...
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Document Center and List View Threshold
From here, I'm under the impression that SharePoint sites built off the "Document Center" or "Records Center" site templates have document libraries and lists that are exempt from the standard ...
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Reconfigure My Sites to use a new web application in Sharepoint 2010
I want to re-do our use of the My Sites feature to point to a separate web application (instead of the current web app which is Sharepoint - 80).
I'm confused about where to create the My Site Host ...
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Why we have 2 folders for web templates in folder (12 hive > Template)
I have two folders in 12 Hive > Template named as "1033" and "Site template".
In folder "1033" I can see having different "STS....." and then these folders got some custom template folders contains ...
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getting error while importing a site to a sitecollection sharepoint 2007
I exported a site which have many sub sites, and then that sub sites have several sub sites, but getting following error if someone got any idea about it.
[16/07/2012 10:00:20]: Start Time: ...
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Sharepoint Site to create new project
I want to create a Sharepoint site so that I may automate the creation of new site from within my site. For example, a firm has several projects. A Project Manager tries to create a new site from the ...
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How to create web template based on Moss 2007 web site in sharepoint 2010
I have a small requirement.. We are migrating moss2007 to sharepoint 2010 online ( cloud)
I have a Moss 2007 web site with some of the webparts( both out of box webparts (list view webparts) and one ...
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Problem Creating Site Collection
We are getting this error when attempting to create new sitecollections based on our sitedefinition. Any ideas of what can be wrong?
Successfully applied template "STCommunitySite#0" to web at URL ...
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Sharepoint 2010, templates and Features
I have been trying to create site templates from a local SP2010 server that can be used by a client for some custom content. The problem is all the "the site template requires that the feature be ...
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Template For Sharepoint Intranet portal
I've been asked to create Intranet portal with following features ONLY..
Admin should be able to create/modify/delete Business group/Sub Groups. through an UI
Admin should be able to ...
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NullReferenceException after deactivating and deleting a webtemplate from solutions
After deactivating and deleting a web template that was not in use I am receiving null reference exceptions when trying to view Site Settings >> Solutions or any page that is not on the root.
In the ...
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Creating a site template with publishing features & multiple subsites inside subsites
So I have been researching this issue and I can see that I'm facing a lot of issues at the same time.
Basically... I want to create a site template that has publishing features enabled and then it ...
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change site template to publishing (after provisioning a site with project template)
I am sure the answer is NO. but just want to confirm. Someone provisioned a site using project template then she realized she was supposed to use publishing template.
I think delete and re-create is ...
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Using Custom Meeting Sharepoint site template in Outlook
We have developped internally a custom meeting workspace template. This template is available when creating a meeting workspace in SharePoint under the tab "Custom".
I would like my users to be able ...
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Best practice for inheriting common content
I want my site to have a side column which will contain some default content (banners, rss feeds, summary link lists etc.) and I would like to have all this included by default in any pages created ...
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Master template is not being applied to document libraries
I have a MOSS 2007 site set to use a master template called Awesome.master http://mysite.com/AwesomeSite/AwesomeSite.aspx
I recently updated this template to change the <body> tag, and that ...
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Error during solution import in Visual Studio 2010 and when applying a web template
I'm trying to import a solution from a wsp-file into a SharePoint 2010 project in Visual Studio 2010. The solution file results from a site template I exported using the "safe as template" option of a ...
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Append Changes to Existing Text of Multiline of text field set “No” after create new site from template
Description:
i have a site, and it contains a list.
in that list, multiple line of text description field.
set append changes to existing text of that description field is "Yes"
now i creating site ...
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Site Template error message
I am trying to use a site template. But, when I go in to use the template it gives me this error message:
The site Template requires that the feature {6e8f2b8d-d765-4e69-84ea-5702574c11d6} be ...
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How do I find which column is being declared incorrectly?
I am a junior dev working on a Sharepoint 2007 to 2010 migration and am hitting the following error when I attempt to import the template:
The formula refers to a column that does not exist. Check ...
