To combat this, I have created a PowerShell based solution, using which, you can easily move or create a SharePoint site. In this post, I will talk about the first four steps, and the rest in the next blog. Pre-requisite: — To create the site collection with custom template, create custom wsp package from the development environment. Download the assets file like Script, css, images, etc. To create the site with custom template, first create the site with blank template and then associate it with the custom template.
To create a site collection, from Custom Template, choose Select template later.. Give inputs to mandatory fields such as site name, URL, etc. Click on OK and the Site Collection is created with blank template. The site collection that we are creating requires the Infrastructure Feature to be activated.
So, activate the infrastructure feature. Write script name and run like this: FileName. These inputs are to be added during the run time or they can be already added in the script.
Note : The Install and Apply methods create a copy of the solution. Once this copy is activated, we no longer need the original wsp file uploaded to the solution gallery.
Now that you have understood how this is done, I have the complete feature activation script for you below. You can directly copy paste the code with the required modifications. Here is the link of Script:. I hope this was helpful. But consider that including content could also increase the size of your template beyond the 50 MB site template limit. Most of the features in a site are included and supported by the template. However, there are several features that are not supported.
Supported Lists, libraries, external lists, data source connections, list views and data views, custom forms, workflows, content types, custom actions, navigation, site pages, master pages, modules, and web templates.
Unsupported Customized permissions, running workflow instances, list item version history, workflow tasks associated with running workflows, people or group field values, taxonomy field values, publishing sites and pages, and stapled features. When you create a site template, information about site features and content types is also saved. When you use the site template in a different site collection, those features must be available and activated for the site template to work. Problems can arise when moving between site templates from different SharePoint versions.
Certain features and content types may not even be available depending on the SKU and configuration. Saving a site as a template is a powerful feature because it offers so many uses of custom sites. Here are the immediate benefits you get from saving a site as a template:. Deploy solutions immediately Save and activate the template in the solutions gallery and let other employees create new sites from this template. They can select it, and then create a new site from it, which will inherit the components of the site, its structure, workflows, and more.
In short, just save the site as a template, activate it, and off you go. Portability In addition to deploying a custom solution in your environment, you can download the. All of your site customization is conveniently stored in one file. Extensibility As a Web Solution Package, you can open your customized site in Visual Studio, perform additional development customization to the template, and then deploy it to SharePoint. As a result, site development can go through a solution life cycle develop, stage, and put into production.
As you begin to create custom sites in SharePoint, you'll discover even more benefits to turning your site into a solution that can be made portable across the organization. When you save a site template, you create a Web Solution Package file. Only the current site is saved; not any subsites below the site. Click Settings and then click Site Settings. In the Site Actions section, click Save site as a template. Note: The Save site as a template option may not be available in all situations.
For more information, see the section Troubleshoot a custom site template below. Specify a name and description for the template in the Template name and Template description boxes. To include the content of the site in the site template, select the Include Content check box. The limit is 50 MB and cannot be changed.
Important: Before creating a site template that includes content, check the workflow history list for the site. If there are thousands of items in the list, it may take a long time to create the site template or you may exceed the limit of 50 MB.
If all of the components on the site are valid, the template is created, and you see a message that states "Operation Completed Successfully.
When you download your site template, you create a. In the Web Designer Galleries section, click Solutions. If it's necessary to activate the solution, select it, and in the Commands group, click Activate. In the Save As dialog box, browse to the location where you want to save the solution, click Save , and then click Close. You can upload a. To activate the solution, on the Activate Solution confirmation screen, in the Commands group, click Activate. After you create a site template and confirm it is activated, you can create a site based on the template.
There are several ways to create a new site or subsite. You can use the SharePoint Designer or create a subsite from an existing site. Follow these steps to create a simple subsite in SharePoint using your saved site template:. Select the User Permissions and Navigation options you'd prefer. You can control when a site template appears in the Create dialog box or its resource usage by activating and deactivating site templates in the Solution Gallery.
Activate Makes the site template available for use when users create new sites through the Create dialog. Deactivate Removes the site template from the Create dialog box. A deactivated site template is unavailable for site creation and can be deleted. Delete Removes the site template from the Solution Gallery, but moves it into to the Recycle Bin for approximately 90 days by default before the Recycle bin is emptied. This is helpful if you later decide to restore it.
If you need to delete a site template, you must deactivate it first. It is important to monitor the growth of the Solutions Gallery. Each entry has a resource usage number assigned to it. Solutions can consume resources, and for that reason they may be temporarily disabled if resource usage exceeds quota. To create a new subsite based on the site template, follow these steps: Make sure you are in the right place to create your subsite.
You need to be at the parent site as the site you will create will be a subsite reside 1 level below where you are. If you are creating a department site, you might want to be at the root of your Intranet site collection the very top-level site.
Check out this post and diagrams to see what I am talking about. Then click on a Custom tab. I will skip permissions and navigation sections as answers to those will be dependent on the site you are building.
For reference check out this post to learn more about security and this one about navigation. After making appropriate choices, click Create Mazel Tov, your new site has now been created! Congrats on saving all this time! How to create a SharePoint site collection from the site template Did you know that you can create a whole site collection based on the site template as well? For example: You decide to create a site collection for every single project or department, instead of a subsite Option 1 in this post You have several business units, and you quickly want to replicate a landing page for all of them assuming every Business Unit has its own site collection You have multiple organizations residing in your Office tenant, and you want to quickly replicate a main Intranet landing page You are trying to follow a flat Information Architecture that is becoming more and more popular The process of creating a new site collection based on the template involves a few more steps than the process above.
Here they are: Navigate to the root top-level site of the site collection where you created a site template in Section 1. We will need to download our template to the computer first. For this, we will need to go to the SharePoint Admin Center. It has some similarities to the subsite form. Choose your timezone, make yourself an Admin and give it at least resources does not really matter.
Click OK You will notice a pop-up message about your site collection being created. Though it says 15 min, should be more like minutes since it is not creating it just yet Once completed, you will see it appear in the list On the pop-up, click on URL again The next few steps are where we will upload and associate our newly created site collection with the template Click on Solution Gallery You will see a familiar screen, this is where we have to upload our template to.
Click on Upload Solution Browse to your computer and upload a template we downloaded in Step 5. This time, go to Custom tab and choose the template we just uploaded and activated.
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