looks like I have not posted my question right.

I want to be able to save an Area as a template  so that I could use
it to create  future Area using the same template.

I tried all these post:

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I was not successful.

I am sure people have been very sucessful in saving an Area as a
template.

Did you issue a IISRESET on the server after making changes to the XML
files?

I did restart the IIS and then also went ahead and restarted the Server, but no
luck.

I could find only the default seven Area templates in the template  section.

were you sucessful with the same.

The solution is to change the value of


_locID@Title="webtemp_title_spscommu0"

_locID@Description="webtemp_desc_spscommu0"



To something like

_locID@Title="webtemp_title_spsmcwevents0"

_locID@Description="webtemp_desc_spsmcwevents0"

Just issue IISRESET, no need to restart the server

Thanks a ton it did work, now I need to figure out how to add some webparts to
this template.

is it rightly mentioned in the MSD2D document?

This gets more complicated, you need to change onet.xml file stored
under the XML folder of your template

Modify the tag <module> <file url="default"> and add a line for each web
part

<AllUsersWebPart ...../> your web part information </AllUsersWebParT>

The best way is to export your web part and copy the web part definition
file

Yes Indeed this is getting more complicated, looks like I am getting lost....

I know I am asking for more, but could I have a small example of how to go about
this?

I have never worked with this ONET.XML file...