Download Sharepoint Sample Site Template

Sharepoint Sample Business
Sharepoint 2013 Site Templates
Free Sharepoint 2013 Site Templates

-->

Note

Publishing Site: This template offers a starter site hierarchy (grouping of SharePoint sites) for an Internet site or a large intranet portal. You can use distinctive branding to customize this site. It includes a home page, a sample press-releases site, a Search Center, and a logon page. This template is available only at the site-collection. SharePoint templates will help users to create the site based predefined features, styles etc. Whenever Microsoft releases a new version, they will come up with additional templates for sites creation. Site Admin Templates Note: To install or remove a site admin template, you must have Administrator rights to both the Windows SharePoint Services site on which it is to be installed. Installing a template: Log into the SharePoint site as the site Administrator. From the Site Actions drop-down menu in the top right, select Site Settings.

The functionality of saving a site as a template described in this article is only supported in SharePoint Server 2013, SharePoint Server 2016, and SharePoint Server 2019 (classic sites only). It is not supported in SharePoint Online or SharePoint Server 2019 (modern sites).

Learn how to design and build robust applications by using SharePoint site templates.You can design and build robust SharePoint applications that include a rich set of data sources, customer-facing views and forms, highly customized workflows, and more. Once you've built your business solution site, you can start to use it immediately in your SharePoint environment. Or, you can turn your solution into a template and deploy it in another environment, make it available to users so they can create new sites from it, or hand it off for additional development in Visual Studio.

What is a SharePoint site template?

SharePoint site templates are prebuilt definitions designed around a particular business need. You can use these templates as they are to create your own SharePoint site, and then customize the site as much as you want. You're probably familiar with the default site templates, such as Team Site, Project Site, and Communities Site.

In addition to the default templates, you can create your own site template based on a site you've created and customized. This is a powerful feature 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 such as Visual Studio and also customize it there.

Turning your customized site or business solution into a template is an extremely useful and very powerful capability. Once you start to package your solution as a template, you begin to realize the potential of SharePoint as a platform for business applications. The site template option makes all of this possible.

When you save your site as a template, you create a Web Solution Package, or WSP. A WSP is a CAB file that uses the solution manifest. The solution that you create is stored in the solutions gallery for the SharePoint site collection. Once you save the template, a solution file (.wsp) is created and stored in the solutions gallery where you can download or activate the solution.

Note

The WSP you create is a partial trust user solution that has the same declarative format as a full trust SharePoint solution. However, it does not support the full extent of feature element types that are supported by full trust solutions.

What gets saved in a template?

When you save a SharePoint site as a template, you're saving the overall framework of the site — its lists and libraries, views and forms, and workflows. In addition to these components, you can include the contents of the site in the template; for example, the documents stored in the document libraries. This could be useful to provide sample content for users to get started with. Consider that this could also increase the size of your template beyond the default 50-MB site template limit.

Most of the objects in a site are included and supported by the template. However, there are several objects and 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 pages and publishing sites, My Sites, stapled features, SharePoint Add-ins, and remote event receivers.
Note
For publishing sites, you can use site definition templates. For more information, see Additional resources at the end of this topic.

What can you do with SharePoint templates?

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. You can select it, and then create a new site from it, which will inherit the components of the site, its structure, workflows, and more. You don't need Visual Studio to create your solution, and you have to access the server directly and run server administrator commands. 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 .wsp file, take it on the road, and deploy it in another SharePoint environment. 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. SharePoint site development, as a result, can go through a solution life cycle (develop, stage, and put into production) that includes SharePoint Designer 2013, Visual Studio, and the browser.

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. The basic steps to working with site templates are as follows:

Save a site as a template to the solutions gallery.
Download the site template from the solutions gallery to a .wsp file.
Upload the .wsp file to the solutions gallery.

After you add a site template to the solutions gallery and the template is activated, the next time that you create a site or subsite, the template is available for selection in the Custom tab of the Template Selection section on the New SharePoint Site page.

Save a site as a template to the solutions gallery

Navigate to the top-level site of your site collection.
Click Settings, and then click Site Settings.
In the Site Actions section, click Save site as a template.
Specify a name to use for the template file in the File name box.
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 box.
Note
Including the content of the site can increase the size of the template significantly. The default size limit for a site template is 50 MB but might be less in your organization. You can always exclude the content, and then copy what you need later into the new site. Or, you can increase the size limit. For example, to increase the limit to the maximum allowed, use the following Stsadm command syntax. > stsadm -o setproperty -pn max-template-document-size -pv 524288000
Click OK to save the template.
If all of the components on the site are valid, the template is created, and you see a message that states 'Operation Completed Successfully.'
Do one of the following:

To return to your site, click OK.
To go directly to the site template, click Solutions Gallery.

Download the site template from the solutions gallery to a file

Navigate to the top-level site of your site collection.
Click Settings, and then click Site Settings.
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. Then, on the Activate Solution Confirmation screen, in the Commands group, click Activate.
To download the solution, click its name in the solutions gallery, and click Save. Then, in the Save As dialog box, browse to the location where you want to save the solution, click Save, and then click Close.

Upload the site template file to a solutions gallery

Navigate to the top-level site of your site collection.
Click Settings, and then click Site Settings.
In the Web Designer Galleries section, click Solutions.
To upload the solution, in the Commands group, click Upload, and then in the Add a Document dialog box, click Browse. Then, in the Choose File to Upload dialog box, locate the file, select it, click Open, and then click OK.
To activate the solution, on the activate solution confirmation screen, in the Commands group, click Activate.

Sharepoint Sample Business

Before you start building custom applications for SharePoint, having a solid working knowledge of its various components is a good idea. The best way to get to know SharePoint is to start with a blank site and develop it from scratch so you understand what the templates are doing. Then you can more easily start with a template as a baseline and develop your site from there.

Sharepoint 2013 Site Templates

Creating a new site is as simple as clicking Site Actions→New Site from the parent site and then clicking through the templates to find the site you want to create. A parent site is simply a site that holds another site.

Free Sharepoint 2013 Site Templates

SharePoint Online Site Templates
Site Template	Description
Assets Web Database	Create a database to keep track of your organization’s information assets, including the details and owner(s) of each asset.
Basic Meeting Workspace	A site on which you can plan, organize, and capture the results of a meeting. It provides lists for managing the agenda, meeting attendees, and documents.
Basic Search Center	This site provides SharePoint search functionality, including pages for search results and advanced searches.
Blank Meeting Workspace	You can use this blank meeting site to customize to your meeting’s requirements. The difference from a Blank Site is that a Blank Meeting Workspace has the components available that you need to build out a site geared toward meetings.
Blank Site	A blank site has no built-in features; customize it to match your requirements. What you are actually doing is creating a container for SharePoint stuff, a site, without actually putting any of the SharePoint stuff in there at the time of creation.
Blog	This site works like an Internet blog; a person or team can post ideas, observations, and expertise that site visitors can comment on.
Charitable Contributions Web Database	By using this site, you can create a database that keeps track of information about fundraising campaigns — including donations, contributors, campaign-related events, and scheduled tasks.
Contacts Web Database	By using this site, you can create a database to manage contact information from customers, partners, and other people who work with your team.
Decision Meeting Workspace	You can use this site at meetings to track the status of projects or make decisions. The site includes lists you can use to create tasks, store documents, and record decisions.
Document Center	You can manage documents centrally for your entire enterprise from this site.
Document Workspace	Colleagues can use that famous SharePoint collaborative capability to work together on a document. The site provides a document library for storing the primary document and supporting files, a list for to-do tasks, and a list that can hold links to resources related to the document.
Enterprise Search Center	This site provides the SharePoint search capability. The Welcome Page includes a search box that has two tabs: one for general searches and another for searches for information about people. You can add tabs, delete them, or customize them with different search scopes or specified result types.
Enterprise Wiki	You can use this site for publishing knowledge that you capture and want to share across the enterprise. Use this site to edit, coauthor, and discuss content, as well as to manage projects.
Express Team Site	This site is for teams to quickly create, organize, and share information. It provides a document library and a list for managing announcements.
Group Work Site	This template provides a site that teams can use to create, organize, and share information. It includes the Group Calendar, Circulation, Phone-Call Memo, the document library, and the other basic lists.
Issues Web Database	Create an issues database to manage a set of issues or problems. You can assign, prioritize, and follow the progress of issues from start to finish.
Multipage Meeting Workspace	You can use this site to plan a meeting and make note of the meeting’s decisions and other results. The site provides lists for managing the agenda and meeting attendees, as well as two blank pages you can customize to your requirements.
Personalization Site	You can use this site to deliver personalized views, data, and navigation from this site collection to My Site. It includes Web Parts that are specific to personalization and navigation that is optimized for My Site sites. This template is available only at the site level.
Projects Web Database	You can create a project-tracking database to track multiple projects and assign tasks to different people.
Publishing Site	This template offers a starter site hierarchy (grouping of SharePoint sites) for an Internet site or a large intranet portal. You can use distinctive branding to customize this site. It includes a home page, a sample press-releases site, a Search Center, and a logon page. This template is available only at the site-collection level. A site collection is a special SharePoint site that allows you to separate key aspects of the sites contained within the site collection.
Publishing Site with Workflow	A site for publishing web pages on a schedule by using approval workflows. It includes document and image libraries for storing web-publishing assets. By default, only sites that have this template can be created under this site.
Social Meeting Workspace	A site on which you can plan social occasions and use lists to track attendees, provide directions, and store pictures of the event.
Team Site	A site on which a team can organize, generate, and share information. It provides a document library as well as lists for managing announcements, calendar items, tasks, and discussions.
Visio Process Repository	A collaborative site on which teams can view, share, and store Visio process diagrams. It provides a document library (with version control) for storing process diagrams as well as lists for managing announcements, tasks, and review discussions.

Luckycatch3