Monday, December 25, 2006

SharePoint 2007: Publishing Site Templates

Following post shows problems creating publishing site templates:

1) As many posts already indicates that there is no link for "save site as template" in site settings, so use http://<server>:<port>/site/_layouts/savetmpl.aspx to save site as the template

2) After saving publishing site as template, It appears as a publishing site template in the create site screen. However, when tried to create a site using this template, it may result in exception indicating that default.aspx master page is unable to translate. This may be due to the tokens used by sharepoint for master pages (not quite sure), but things worked fine when I added a new home.aspx page in template site, set it as welcome page and deleted the default.aspx page.

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