Creating site template in sharepoint

Once you've created a top-level team site or communication site, you can create subsites. Subsites let you use a wider range of templates, such as classic team, publishing, blog, or document center sites.

The descriptions below will help you choose the template you need. Note: SharePoint in Microsoft top-level sites, such as Team or Communication site are not available as subsite templates, only as top level sites. SharePoint Server offers new Team sites as subsite. In SharePoint in Microsoft , you can create subsites with classic templates only.

The publishing tab is only available when you enable the SharePoint Publishing Infrastructure, and only as a subsite from a top-level, group-connected team site. The publishing infrastructure and publishing subsites are not available on top-level communication sites. When you create a subsite from a group-connected team site, the subsite can inherit permissions from the parent site and members of the team will have access.

Some SharePoint in Microsoft top-level site features will not be available on classic subsites, such as Move to and Copy to. With SharePoint Server and , you can create top-level sites or subsites using the below classic templates.

The following descriptions show the availability of templates based on the version and plan of SharePoint Server you're using. It doesn't support any other templates. Note: If you have a site or subsite you don't need anymore, see Delete a SharePoint site or subsite.

Collaboration site templates create sites where you can communicate information about your team and projects, create a blog, or a community site. SharePoint Server offers modern team sites as subsites, but with no connection to a Microsoft Group.

For more information, see What is a SharePoint team site? Use the Classic Team site to quickly create, organize, and share information for your team or project. The site includes: libraries and lists for:. A team site can be used as a single environment to create, organize, and share content.

For example, use the announcements list to broadcast key information, new tools, or resources to team members. Use the calendar to share scheduling information, like team events, deadlines, or vacations. You might also try the Links list to help your team connect with partner sites or find key information for their jobs.

Note: For a SharePoint in Microsoft subsite, using the team site template creates a classic team site. Note: SharePoint classic blogs are being retired. Beginning January 18th, , the classic blog site template name will change to "Blogs retired ". Beginning July 17th, , the ability to create new classic blog sites through the user interface will be turned off. For an alternative to classic blogs, see Creating a blog with communication sites and news posts. Use the Blog site to quickly announce company announcements, or post ideas, observations, and expertise within your team or organization.

The site contains Posts , Comments , and Links. Blog tools help you approve or reject draft posts, and edit or delete old posts. You can even receive alerts when the blog is updated. To help users locate content that interests them, you can assign posts you create to one or more categories. Blog sites allow you to comment on posts, which is a great way to keep your readers engaged. The Project site template provides an easy way to manage projects.

The site has similar collaborative features as the Team site, and includes a Projects Summary web part that is connected to the default Task list. Items added to the Task list are automatically displayed in the Project Summary. For more info, see Create a project site.

Community sites offer several benefits over email, instant messaging, or other communication methods, including:. Site maintenance using SharePoint lists, which allow you to take advantage of the governance, records management, and workflow integration features of SharePoint. Note: Creating a sub site using the communication site template under a community site is not supported.

For more info, see Create a community portal. Enterprise site templates give you sites for document or record storage and tracking, Business Intelligence for data analysis, or site-wide search capabilities.

None are supported by SharePoint Foundation. Use the Document Center site template to manage large numbers of documents. You can use a Document Center site as an authoring environment or a content archive. In an authoring environment, users frequently check files in and out and create folder structures for those files. In this article, we will learn how to create a custom site template in SharePoint Online step by step.

Custom site templating is very essential while you are managing your tenant sites where you want to maintain a consistent look and feel for your company — whenever you create a new site use the custom site template that you have created, this way we can have the consistent branding across the tenant. There are many ways we can apply the site provisioning in SharePoint Online — the most popular areas below:. The JSON instruction will be executed in sequential order. Each action in a site script is specified by a verb value in the JSON.

The few verbs are as below:. This can be further used as a site template to create new sites which will maintain a consistent look and feel, and other common sets of configurations. In previous versions of SharePoint, site templates were called site designs but will be referred to as site templates moving forward.

By now we have understood the concept of site script and site design, now we will see how it works practically. Below PowerShell script contains end to end scripted process to create the site template in PowerShell script:. By default, a template from the Microsoft tab will be selected where we can see all templates have been published from Microsoft. Site scripts are JSON files that specify an ordered list of actions to run when creating the new site.

The actions are run in the order listed. The following example is a script that has two top-level actions. First, it applies a theme that was previously created named Contoso Explorers. It then creates a Customer Tracking list. Each action in a site script is specified by a verb value in the JSON. In the previous script, the first action is specified by the applyTheme verb. Next, the createSPList verb creates the list. Notice that the createSPList verb contains its own set of verbs that run additional actions on only the list.

For a complete list of available actions and their parameters, see the JSON schema. Site scripts can be run again on the same site after provisioning. Site scripts are non-destructive, so when they run again, they ensure that the site matches the configuration in the script. For example, if the site already has a list with the same name that the site script is creating, the site script will only add missing fields to the existing list.

We'd previously capped the limit of site script actions to This remains the limit for scripts applied synchronously using the Invoke-SPOSiteDesign command, but based on customer feedback and support for additional actions we have bumped this limit to actions or , characters when the scripts are applied asynchronously either through the UI or using the Add-SPOSiteDesignTask command.

The following example creates a site script and a site template that uses the site script. For step-by-step information about creating a site template, see Get started creating site templates. One action provided by site scripts is the ability to trigger a Power Automate flow. This allows you to specify any custom action that you need beyond the actions provided natively in site scripts.

If you use the PnP provisioning engine to automate site creation, you can use a Power Automate flow to integrate with site templates.

You can maintain all your existing provisioning scripts as well as create new custom provisioning scripts by using this technique. The Azure function runs your custom script, such as the PnP provisioning engine, to apply your custom configurations.

For a step-by-step tutorial about how to configure your own Power Automate flow with PnP provisioning, see Build a complete site template using the PnP provisioning engine. You can configure site templates to only appear for specific groups or people in your organization. This is useful to ensure that people only see the site templates intended for them.