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2003: site templates at portal level

Asked By: Jordan Lawson Date: Jan 18, 2010 Category: Sharepoint Views: 238

In SPS 2003 I can go to a section in the admin section where I can add
site templates (Site Settings -> Manage security and additional settings
-> Manage site template gallery). The section says "Make a template
available for use in Web site creation by adding it to this gallery. The
templates in this gallery are available to this site and all sites under
it. Default site templates are not shown." So I thought *maybe* I can
upload my .STP file to this gallery and have it available for site
creation rather than what I've been doing which is to log onto the
server and use STSADM.EXE to add the template from the command line.

Problem is I can't see where these templates show up? They don't show up
in the list of templates when you create a site through the site
directory. From the server using STSADM with the enumtemplates option,
you can't see the template. I've done an IISRESET on the server still
can't see it. Even tried to create a site under one I created at the
portal level and still the template isn't there.

So where exactly does this "site template" show up?

Tagged:2003 site templates at portal level

4 Answers Found

Answer #1 Answered By: Kalash Karmakar Answered On: Jan 18, 2010

site template for the site directory, are only
available when loaded using the stsadm utility

You need to save your template as a .stp file
Move it to the server and type
Stsadm -o addtemplate -filename "filename.stp" -title "title"
-description "your description)
Issue a iisreset on the server and your template will show up when you
create new site.

I wish MS will make it easier to manage template at the root level and
let us upload template at the top level like we can do it inside a site
collection.

Answer #2 Answered By: Mauricio Tanner Answered On: Jan 18, 2010

but then the $10,000 question is where are these
templates you do upload to the portal gallery show up? I can't see where
they're used anywhere so it's a big placebo IMO.

Answer #3 Answered By: Gina Freeman Answered On: Jan 18, 2010

I don't have the answer, I think they don't show up anywhere. Looks like
a bug to me. My only guess is those template will show up as Site
template once the new site collection is created.

Answer #4 Answered By: Tyrell Nash Answered On: Jan 18, 2010

Nope, I created a site collection under the portal and they don't show
up there either. They *might* show up if you create a new top level site
collection but that's pretty drastic and I'm not about to do it on my
portal site. I have a call in my MS techie to see what the deal is so
maybe I'll have an answer later on this.

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