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Save site as template in SharePoint Online

Although this option is not supported by Microsoft it still works very well in some specific scenarios. To Save the site as a template you can follow this steps. Open the site with SharePoint ...
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how do I determine subsite template

to do this in chrome: go to the home page (or any page really) of the sub site you want to check. open the Chrome menu and select More Tools > Developer Tools. View the page source and do a ctrl+f and ...
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Can we create a template for sites in SharePoint online?

You can use Site Provisioning with PnP PowerShell. It gives you more control over what to include/exclude and automate the creation process if this is repetitive tasks. Get-PnPProvisioningTemplate -...
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Save site as template in SharePoint Online

This issue most frequently occurs because the Community Sites or the SharePoint Server Publishing feature is currently enabled or was previously enabled for the affected site. Also, in SharePoint ...
Mohamed El-Qassas MVP's user avatar
6 votes

Can we create a template for sites in SharePoint online?

Yes, you can create a new site from the current customized site through Save Site as Template option in your Site Setting. Note: Save site as a template is not available with a publishing site and ...
Mohamed El-Qassas MVP's user avatar
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Unlike on-premises i can not save a team sub-site as template when its root site have the Publishing features enabled

By default, if you enabled the SharePoint publishing feature in root site, then there is no “save the site as template” option in site settings. There is a workaround. You could save the site as ...
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How to see what site template is used in SharePoint Online (Office 365)

I've been trying to find out why when I search the Source Code from my 365 tennant I can't find a 'g_wsaSiteTemplateID' variable anywhere. It seems like the variable name has been changed to '...
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Can I default all lists to open in dialog?

You can do that for all lists/library within your site by setting NavigateForFormsPages to false via PowerShell. Open SharePoint Management Shell as Administrator. Run the following script line by ...
Mohamed El-Qassas MVP's user avatar
4 votes

Create site collection using custom site template SharePoint Online

it is little tricky,here are the steps. simply proceed as you would normally to create a new Site Collection, however when it comes time to select a template to base the new site collection select ...
Waqas Sarwar MVP's user avatar
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What is the recommended SharePoint site to use for External Site?

As a short answer : Yes it's SharePoint publishing site. A SharePoint publishing site is a site that’s built using a publishing site template. A SharePoint publishing site is a site where authoring ...
Mohamed El-Qassas MVP's user avatar
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How get Site Template name in SPSite, and Web Template name in SPWeb using C#

SPWeb.WebTemplate property Gets the name of the site definition or site template that was used to create the site. using System; using Microsoft.SharePoint; namespace Test { class ConsoleApp { ...
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TaxonomyFieldType is not installed properly?

Managed metadata service is not available in SharePoint Foundation. You need to delete the taxonomy fields before you can save the site as a template. For more information - SharePoint OnPremise ...
Swayam Siddha's user avatar
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How to deactivate and remove old site templates?

Yes, it's a permission issue, The site Owner can only deactivate and delete the Site Template that already not used. At the other side, the Site Collection Administrator is responsible for the entire ...
Mohamed El-Qassas MVP's user avatar
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How do I make a copy of a subsite?

This issue most frequently occurs because the Community Sites Feature site feature, the SharePoint Server Publishing site feature, or the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure site collection ...
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4 votes

SharePoint 2013 & Wordpress

Wordpress and SharePoint are different products. Wordpress templates cannot be used in SharePoint, and SharePoint templates cannot be used in wordpress.
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Is it mandatory that we need to create "Developer Site" to deploy apps? Or can they be deployed on team site too?

You need an App.. ehm.. Add-In.. Catalog to distribute Add-Ins https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/fp123530.aspx A Developer Site is only required if you want to.. develop..
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How to inherit parent site look and feel on my Team Site

It's for SharePoint 2010 Please follow the below steps: Go to root level In Site Collection >> Site Actions >> Site Settings >> Site Collection Administration section >> Site collection features ...
Dikesh Gandhi's user avatar
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Creating site template with all custom lists and web parts from existing subsite

If it is team site (= not publishing site) you can go to Site Settings, and Save site as template and select to save all data on the site. Then you can create new sites based on that site that ...
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Disabling site template in SharePoint 2013

Activate Publishing features if not already activated. SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure - Site collection feature SharePoint Server Publishing - Site feature Go to Site Settings --> ...
Unnie's user avatar
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Site created using a site template will not preserve the values for the columns (hidden columns will be set as required)

As I mentioned in a question you asked earlier, I had the same problem. I have only been able to solve it with an "unsupported" action. But it works perfectly. In my case it is a multi-site project ...
Juan Pablo Pussacq Laborde's user avatar
3 votes

Error finding templates by title

Try to add .Name at this line $Web.ApplyWebTemplate($wtemplate.Name) Web.ApplyWebTemplate method has one argument that is the web template Name [Update] I modified your script and tried it on my ...
Mohamed El-Qassas MVP's user avatar
3 votes

How do I make a copy of a subsite?

No, The Save Site As Template still available in SharePoint Online for The Publishing Site. The Community Site. The Team Site with the SharePoint Server Publishing feature is enabled. If your ...
Mohamed El-Qassas MVP's user avatar
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Can't save Site as Template on a publishing site

Is this a bug or is this by design? It's by design, The simple reason according to Microsoft is that “the publishing feature creates site elements that are not supported as part of a template, and ...
Mohamed El-Qassas MVP's user avatar
3 votes

Save Modern Site Page as Template

The "Save as template" option only appears to be available in SharePoint Online: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/page-templates-in-sharepoint-faa92408-0c84-4e3d-8460-3c28065e7873
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Subsites created from a duplicated site collection have buggy default links

Found my answer. Was an issue with localization. I had to set the title of my site in every other culture to make this work properly, psscript: $web = Get-SPWeb "MySiteCollectionUrl" $title = "...
VB Did Nothing Wrong's user avatar
2 votes

How to create a customized SharePoint 2013 site template?

Once you activate the Publishing feature on site you lose the "Save site as a template" option in Site Settings. This is by design. One approach you can take is to define the site you want from a ...
Erik Perez's user avatar
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Save site as template using client object model

The short answer is "Save site as template" is not possible with the client object model (it IS possible with the server object model). If you look at the Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web class you'll ...
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Error while creating site template in SharePoint 2013

I had a similar issue, you should check wss.xsd file: “C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\TEMPLATE\XML\wss.xsd” https://erroreimprevisto.wordpress.com/2016/08/01/...
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