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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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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“new item” instead of “new document” in programmatic document library

I have a created a SharePoint 2013 document library programmatically within a custom site definition. The problem is that when I browse to the AllItems.aspx of that Doc Library a "new item" button ...
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Error when creating Site from Custom Template

I am receiving the following error when I attempt to creat a new site and use my custom template (that I have used before). Can you assist? The error is: The site template requires that the ...
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How To move a Sharepoint Site Template from one farm to another Farm?

I have a sharepoint site collection on one of my farm.Which is saved as a template. Now i want to create a new sharepoint site on another farm that uses the template of my first farm .How i can move ...
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“Cannot complete this action.” When calling ApplyWebTemplate()

SPWebApplication webApp = SPContext.Current.Site.WebApplication; using (SPSite site = webApp.Sites.Add("/sites/site3", "SharePoint", null, 1033, null, "administrator", "Administrator", ...
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When deploying a site from custom site template, one lookup column in doclib has empty values for Office 2010 (docx, xlsx, pptx) files

I'm deploying sites using a custom site template (WSP) that is: Saved as WSP from customized Team Site Deployed as Farm Solution Has lists, libraries with content customized in Visual Studio ...
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Why are web part connections in a template breaking?

We have a SharePoint site that we created based on a blank site template. We add lists, pages, webparts (including some connected web parts) and then save this site as a template (.wsp file). We ...
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Save a multilingual site as template

I created a site and set the language settings to multiple languages, so users can switch between different languages for the MUI. But I have also custom columns in a list. So, i translated the ...
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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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Unhandled exception when saving a site as a template

I've been saving my site as a template successfully for a while, but after adding a new dialog to my 'Action Items' list in SharePoint Designer, I am no longer able to export my site. The original ...
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Install on premise SharePoint 2010 Site template, on SharePoint Office365 (SP 2013 based)

Is there a setting that'll enable me to install a SharePoint 2010 site template (wsp) on SP 2013?
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Easily update site templates

I have created a site with some lists and libraries. I have also set up the quick launch with some items and created a home page with some web parts. I created a template from that site, so I can use ...
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Is it possible to use a custom web template inhirited from teamsite template, in a publish site template?

I am using sharepoint 2010 and VS2010. I have implemented this tutorial for creating a custom web template, and it works: ...
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Recursive Enumeration of Sites, Subsites, and Application Templates Used

I am migrating my WSS 3.0 installation over to 2010 and then eventually to 2013 and am in need of a stsadm command that will show me a list of sites in the site collection, a list of subsites within ...
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selecting site-template

Hello I am beginner in SP. I want to create a basic portal for our company's HR department. We have a taxonomy, so we want to have a tree view menu on the left , and a section in the center where we ...
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Multilingual User Interface (MUI) not works with SiteTemplates

I've created a CType and create columns namings for multiple languages by changing the current language and set the corresponding naming. Then I create a Subsite (same language based) using those same ...
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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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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 ...
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Which language or format Site Templates are in

I know site definitions are built using xml with different tags in them, but until now I thought Site Templates are in XML format as well containing latest settings of site definitions but in fact ...
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Remote PowerShell Script

I have server 1 (application that the script) (dax-sp) and server 2 (sharepoint) (sp-sp) Script on server 1 (ScriptStart.ps1) Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Shell\MaxMemoryPerShellMB 2000 $pwd = ...
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Site template 'An SPRequest object was not disposed before the end of this thread'

The following error occurs when trying to save a site template: An SPRequest object was not disposed before the end of this thread. This has been driving me mad so if anybody has encountered ...
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Irregular behavior in SharePoint Designer based workflows

I am using SharePoint Designer 2010 to build list workflows. However, workflows that I have built and tested are unpredictably disappearing from the list of WFs available to run in the browser UI. ...
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Global Navigation links are missing in Site Template

I'm using SharePoint 2010, and have structured the global navigation with 6 Headings. Four of the Headings have multiple (child) links below them. These child link url's are pointing to custom ...
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Using templates from a site under 'My Site'?

One of our customers has created a My Site area (with default settings), and then created a new site 'TestSite' in their content area. When they try to create a new site in another My Site area (on ...
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How do I ensure that the task list displays in Gantt view when creating a new site from template?

I have a site with a Task List, which has a custom Gantt view as the default view. The home page of the site, which is not a wiki page, has a List View Web Part for the Task List where the Gantt view ...
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Export large lists from Sharepoint into Visual Studio

Backgroud: I'm developing a workflow solution for my customer. They have an existing SharePoint 2010 farm, with three custom lists. The lists contain about two dozen fields and allow files to be ...
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Site definition with workflow

i need advice on how to implement workflows inside a specific situation. We have a list of projects. When someone adds a new project we need to create a subsite for this project (with the proper ...
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Missing SharePoint 2010 Web Templates folder

We had a little mixup with a backup and restore on our SharePoint server and the only thing that appears to be missing in the Meeting Site MPS Template folder in the site templates directory under: ...
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Error when sign in as different user: The resource cannot be found. /SitePages/Home.aspx

Create a site collection selecting a site template. Prompted asking whether to use existing groups and gave OK. In the newly created site collection, added new user as member and also in a new user ...
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AbsenceVacationschedule2.wsp from 40 Templates - Duplicate field name

I downloaded the 40 Templates for SharePoint 2010 and tried to get the AbsenceVacationschedule2.wsp template to work. I followed these instructions Goto 'Site Settings' of that new Web ...
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SharePoint 2010 Publishing Site New List Item using Page Template

When click New Item it's showing the Site Page Template as a wrapper. How do I get it to not do that?
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publishing web template is invisible and team site template does not contain

I have created two web templates one of them is based on Team site and the other one based on publishing site. I have used a farm scoped feature to deploy both of them. I have two problems. My ...
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Is it normal for sites to take long to be created after an upgrade?

A quick question, is it normal for sites to take this long (+-8 minutes) to be created after an upgrade from 2007? Or do you think there may be issues in the environment post-upgrade? Many thanks, ...
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Sharepoint 2010: Create web pages programmatically of multiple solutions

My problem goes, as the title says, create web pages programmatically of multiple solutions on SharePoint 2010; because when I do deploy one solution the program recognize my site templates and I can ...
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Creating Site Template Using ListView Web Part on AllItems page

People, I have created a site to use as a template. This site has document libraries on the AllItems.aspx page of each document library I have added 2 web parts a third party web part and a list ...
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How do I get my site to be usable as a template in a new site?

I made a site, and I want to be able to use this site as a template for new ones. My goal is to get all of the layout of the page onto a new site, but leave the quick links bar alone on the new site ...
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Deployment Error: A site column cannot enforce a relationship behavior

i exported a Site Template and added a custom usercontrol to trim my ribbon.. Now when i want to deploy and debug it. There is an Error in the deployment stept "Activate Features" with the above ...
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SharePoint 2010 - Site Template with Folders

I have ran into an issue where a user has wanted to create a site template of a site that contains folders in a 'Shared Documents' web part. When we create the site template and include the content ...
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Does WebProvisioned fire when creating a subsite from a custom site template?

When a user creates a subsite (not a Site Collection or Root Web) we like to make some changes to the site. Today we are using the WebProvisioned event to do the configuration after the site has been ...
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Employee contact gallery

Can anybody point me towards a decent template that I can use for our company's contacts page? The boss wants a site where we have key information about the employees (including photos). It is hope ...