Referencing Single Metadata Fields in a Custom Web Template
Is there a way to refer to a single metadata field in a custom web gallery template? I don't see a syntax for this in the files that define the templates that ship with Aperture. They appear to refer only to the metadata as a collection. Is there a way to refer to individual fields?
The problem is that Web Templates are deployed to a gallery in a site collection and aren't available in Central Admin when creating a new site collection. YOu have to create the site collection without choosing a template and then choose your web
template when you first access the root site in the site collection. Here's an article that discusses that process here:
http://sharepointchick.com/archive/2011/02/10/using-web-templates-to-create-site-collections.aspx
Other than that Vesa's article is still the best one and works essentially the same in 2013 as it does in 2010.
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I am looking for someone who has integrated a custom web template with the CRM fact sheet (I am on 2004s).
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From your description, the most concern you might have is that customers will have the requirements to add other components into their sites and created with them afterwards.
Since SharePoint 2010, it is recommended to take use of something like “a la carte” pattern to manage SharePoint sites. If there are needs to add sites, lists or other components,
we can make them as solution(.wsp) and deploy to our sites. By doing this, we will be more flexible and easier to manage the features and structure of sites.
So you can just create a site template with simple structure and deploy the solutions you want after sites created.
Here are two links about
Plan for sites and solutions for your reference:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc789336(v=office.14).aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee476993(v=office.14).aspx
What’s more, you can take a look at the two links below about
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/aa979683(v=office.14).aspx
http://sharepointchick.com/archive/0001/01/01/site-definitions-vs.-webtemplates.aspx
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I'm absolutely not opposed to doing a good deal of reading on this topic, so feel free to recommend online (and offline) resources that I might consult that provide the kind of information I'm seeking here. In any case, here is my issue...
I have been asked to develop "custom site templates" for an existing SharePoint 2013 (on-prem) environment where the vast majority of the site collections that are likely to ever be are already provisioned. My [admittedly feeble] understanding
of the "proper" way to do site templates is to reference the master pages and style library and such that exist at the site collection root for subordinate sites that are hosted within that site collection. Buuuuut, when the site collections already
exist (i.e. you aren't creating them using a customized template that contains all that information), what is the best practice approach to handling and applying these customizations?
I will point out that I am equipped and willing to manage these custom templates using VS (2013), but if that's not entirely necessary, then I'm as willing to avoid that... ;)
If someone could get me started on the right approach or point me in the right direction, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thank you.Hi Ramz_dc,
In addition to the default templates, you can create your own site template based on a site you’ve created and customized in SharePoint. This is a powerful feature in SharePoint that allows you to create a custom solution and then share that solution with
your peers, the broader organization, or outside organizations. You can also package the site and open it in another environment or application like Microsoft Visual Studio and further customize it there.
Take a look at the below links
OOB site template
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-designer-help/save-a-sharepoint-site-as-a-template-HA101782501.aspx
Visual Studio
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff408263%28v=office.14%29.aspx
http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/55544/how-to-create-and-apply-custom-site-template-for-sharepoint
http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/63141/how-to-create-a-custom-web-template-not-a-site-definition-or-import-a-saved-tem
http://www.fpweb.net/support/microsoft-sharepoint/tutorials/sharepoint-2013/customization/create-site-template/#
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