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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Convert site template to site definition
How do I go about making a site template to a site definition? For example, if I have a modified team site which I saved as WSP (save as site template), can I import that into VS2010 and convert to a ...
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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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1answer
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How do you switch to a different site template in SharePoint 2010?
If you used a site template (such as the Document Center template) and wish to use a different template (such as a Team Site), how can you accomplish this? More importantly, how do you do this ...
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Which Site Template is a site using?
I have inherited SharePoint 2010 farm that was previously upgraded from MOSS2007. I am wanting to document the setup and would like to document which site templates were used to create the various ...
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1answer
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How can I set the relative path to a workbook in the Chart Web Part, and use it within a template?
We have a team site in our solution (SPS 2010 - Enterprise). On this site there's a list. For every new item in the list, it creates a new site from a template.
Structure:
team-website
website 1
...
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When to use Custom Site Definitions… and not
Its an old battle between ITpro and developer. ITpros hate them due to upgrade issues, devs like the freedom it gives them without having to do house cleaning with feature stapling.
What is your ...
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Please suggest a practice to deploy a sharepoint site collection from test to production server
This is the current scenario:
Sharepoint 2010 on MachineA with SQL Server. Site collection SCa on web app WAa.
Now I need to "deploy" my site collection on MachineB.
What are the suggested ways ...
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Why we need to do IIS Reset after adding a template
I added a template using,
STSADM -o addtemplate -filename "C:\Stalker\BaleeeBaleee.stp" -title "YouBreakLive"
I can see it in Central Administration in "Custom" site templates when I try to create ...
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Sharepoint Q&A tool like Stack Exchange
Are there any add-ons to Sharepoint to provide a Q&A type of site like this one or Stack Exchange? This would be for an internal corporate intranet, rather than a public site. I know there are ...
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SharePoint 2007 Site Template (.stp) file display category
I have created a Site Template file (.stp). When I add it to the site templates gallery of the target farm it shows up in a strange tab when you go to provision the a new sub-site based on the ...
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Is it possible to modify existing solutions/templates?
I modified the master page of a site and I would like to make all new sites that get created to use this master page by default. Is there a way to modify the built in site templates to use this master ...
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Error exporting the site field named “Parent Level”
I am trying to save a site as a template. During this process it throws an error "Error exporting the site field named "Parent Level".
Am I doing anything wrong?
Kind Regards,
Sepaka
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Publishing Site “Save site as template”
How to save site as template for a Publishing Site ?
I am not able to understand how this is done
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Deploying a site template and instantiate it in the same PowerShell script?
I want to create a PowerShell script that :
add a farm solution that only contains a site template
deploy the solution globally
wait for the deploy job to finish
create a site collection based on ...
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5answers
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Programmatically create Site using Custom Web Template in Sharepoint 2010
I want to programmatically create a site using custom web templates in sharepoint 2010.
In 2007 I used to get a
SPWebTemplate template = site.GetCustomWebTemplates(LCID)[number];
and used this ...
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Relative URL for HTML links in Site Template
I have several links inside content editor webparts and on webpages that reference the site they are in. For example:
<a href="/sites/ABC/page.aspx">Link</a>
Site ABC is being saved as ...
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How can I include jQuery and JavaScript code without straying from the site template?
I've added my JavaScript code by including the script links in the PlaceHolderAdditionalPageHead <asp:Content> tag. Including this has caused a yellow warning stating
The current page has ...
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1answer
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How can an end user check what template a site was created from?
Is there a way that an end-user (or site collection administrator) without access to PowerShell or STSADM can check to see what template was used to create a given site on SharePoint 2010?
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Best practices when creating Site to use as a template
I'm creating a site that I'll eventually use as a template to create other sites from it. The site will contain lists, workflows, user groups, content types etc etc.
I want to make lots of clones ...
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2answers
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How to move site templates from SharePoint 2010 (on-premise) to SharePoint Online (Office 365)?
I tried to migrate a site template from an on premise installation to SharePoint 2010 Online (Office 365). When I try to create a new site I get the following error:
The site template requires ...
3
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1answer
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Save Site as Template: Why is the “include content” section available for some sites but not others?
For some of our SharePoint sites and sub-sites, the "include content" checkbox is not available on the Save Site as Template page (in particular, Wiki sites). By "not available" I mean that the ...
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1answer
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Create a site template for a project site
We want to create our own site template to be used as a template for team sites, this should include security groups, a specific set of lists and libraries with required settings and a selection of ...
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Search for specific Web Template in SharePoint Search
Is it possible to construct a SharePoint Search Query for a specific web type (site definition / web template id) in the same manner as for lists?
I can easily search for my custom lists using ...
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2answers
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Server Error in Save Site as Template in SharePoint 2010
I am getting the following error when saving a site as a template (just this specific site is having this issue - other sites in collection successfully save as template)
...
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1answer
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Template usercontrol hide based on page
Is it possible to hide a usercontrol that I have added to a custom template based on what page I am on. I have several pages that use the template but I only want one page to display the control the ...
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2answers
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Save site as template do not include list attachments
I'm trying to create a site template which include several lists. On these lists, we've got items with attachments. I'm quite surprised not to see attachment in the WSP generated... I've created a ...
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1answer
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Is it possible to filter a BCS list using a site's name?
I'm running SharePoint Foundation and copying a site template per project. I would like to filter the BCS list in my template using the site name.
Is there a possible method?
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1answer
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Moving Site Template (.stp) files to SharePoint 2010
MOSS Site Template (.stp) files are no longer supported in SharePoint 2010. So how do you import .stp files?
Isha Kapoor's blog post describes these steps:
First you need to create a site in ...
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1answer
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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 ...
3
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1answer
345 views
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 ...
2
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5answers
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How to create programmatically a Site with a custom template?
I'm trying to create a site from my template...
[WebMethod]
public ResponseObject addGroup()//AddGroup addGroupObj)
{
try
{
string fullsite = ...
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2answers
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Create a template of a TFS integrated project site?
We are looking to create templates of our current TFS integrated project sites on SharePoint 2010 for future projects. Is it possible to create a SharePoint site template based on an empty TFS project ...
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3answers
295 views
Alternatives to Feature Stapling?
I'm trying to determine if there is any way to automatically deploy a few web parts on the creation of new My Sites pages, but in a manner that doesn't use feature stapling. I know how to feature ...
2
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1answer
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.wsp/.cab file creation in SharePoint
So I had to dismantle a .wsp file to correct some pathing issues that wouldn't fix any other way in feature.xml (this is a site template), and now can't seem to find a decent utility to put the ...
2
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1answer
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Why am I getting issues with a WSP imported into Visual Studio?
I imported a WSP (site template) in VS 2010 and compiled. I then tried to create a package (build > package). I am getting all sorts of issues. Why is that? The site templated was created using an ...
2
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1answer
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Changing the Team Site Template
Is it possible to change the settings on an existing site template, such as the team site?
We would like to recommend to our users to create sites using the team site template where possible, however ...
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1answer
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Creating a site definition
We have some 30+ departmental sites that need to be created for our intranet on SharePoint 2010 and are looking for ways to accelerate this process. One method suggested has been to use a standardized ...
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SharePoint 2010 - Which template should I use for an intranet?
I need to select a root site template for an intranet wih the following requirements:
SharePoint 2010
Small company
Approx 40 users
Subsites (Probably Site Collections)
projects
Finance
HR
...
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2answers
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Importing a WSP template - Error, require feature {69cadbef-ac7d-494d-9d0a-39a26e008377}
I've made a back up of site to produce a template file (WSP) in SharePoint 2010 online. I have then tried to import into my development platform, which is also SP 2010 online but keep getting the ...
2
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1answer
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Structure of a WSP file
After you save a site as template you get a WSP file that you can then import in VS and tweak it as you want.
I did this for a site today and had a lot of things in the WSP after I decompressed it, ...
2
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Make a copy of sharepoint site under a new name
Since we can't save SharePoint site (with publishing feature enabled) as Template, I'm looking for a way to do this programmatically :
Make a copy of "SiteA" with a new name
"SiteB" under the ...
2
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1answer
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Export site as a template and master page link?
We have a site collection that have several sub webs.
In the root site, we created some custom master pages.
We linked the subwebs masterpage url (SPWeb.MasterPageUrl) to the same, centralized ...
2
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1answer
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Cannot deactivate site template (solution) after creating and deleting a new site
In SharePoint 2010, I created a new site template from an existing site and a new site using this template. After deleting the new site and I cannot deactivate the site template to be able to remove ...
2
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2answers
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Error when importing site: BLANKINTERNET#0 vs. BLANKINTERNET#2
I've been working on a SharePoint 2010 site in a development area for a while, and now I've come to export individual sites (rather than the entire site collection) so that I can import them onto my ...
2
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1answer
196 views
createsite event handler in sharepoint online
I am writing an event handler that will create a new site whenever the new item is added to the list. My issue is it creates a new site everytime but it does and does not (randomly) execute the code ...
2
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1answer
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character problem in webpart title after exporting a site
After i have creat a site collection (in french), i save it as a model, open it in Visual studio, change the scope of a feature, package it and deploy it on the farm and create a new site collection ...
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SharePoint 2010 Site Templates: Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object
When utilizing sites created from custom templates (e.g. OOTB team site with additional library added) and the content included in the template, the following error begins to appear when sites are ...
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Document Library Template: The language is not supported on the server
We have created a document library template to facilitate the rapid deployment of multiple document libraries with identical structure. The template has been created within the same site and the same ...
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How can I create a standard site template in SharePoint 2013
I want to create a standard site template which I can choose if I want create a new subsite.
Can you show me the steps to make this possible=
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1answer
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French Site Template isn't appearing in custom templates
I got tens of custom templates in english language but I just tried to add a french template of same site using
STSADM -o Addtemplate -filename -title
then did a IISReset, but when I go to Central ...
