Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Training Tutorial - Sites and Templates - Part 1. Learn the fundamentals of SharePoint 2010 sites and templates. Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Training Tutorial.
SharePoint 2010 provides loads of templates you can use for creating sites. By far the two most popular are the team site and publishing sites. But SharePoint offers a lot more choices beyond those two. What’s more, your company can even create site templates that are specific to your company.
The term site template is overloaded. Technically, the site templates provided by Microsoft are site definitions, which is just an XML file that describes how to create a site. Site definitions reside on the file system. The site templates that you create from your sites are just Microsoft cabinet files that contain the objects required to stamp out a new site.
Site templates are stored in the site collection and can be shared easily with other people. A site template is tied to one of the underlying Microsoft site definitions. A site template creates a new site using the Microsoft site definition and then builds out the site using the objects contained in the cabinet file.
SharePoint provides dozens of site templates that fall into a handful of categories. Within each category, the templates are basically the same only with slight variations. Each category is optimized to serve a different audience or function.
Team sites are almost always the de facto standard for collaboration sites used for project teams. Publishing sites are usually used for public-facing websites.
The following table outlines the site template categories, lists the templates you can except to see, and when you should use them.
| Category | Templates You See | When to Use Them |
|---|---|---|
| Blank & Custom | Blank Site | When you want an empty container |
| Collaboration | Team Site and Meeting Workspaces | When more people will contribute content than read it; also when you want basic layouts |
| Content & Data | Blog, Contacts Web Database, Personalization Site, Document Center, Publishing Site, Enterprise Wiki, Visio Process Repository | When you need a site that specializes in content or data management |
| Search | Basic Search Center, Enterprise Search Center | When you need a site to display search results |
| Tracking and Web Databases | Assets Web Database, Charitable Contributes Web, Projects Web Database | When you want to use a Web-based database to create track of information |
If you’re creating new site collections, you see a slightly different set of categories along with a few additional templates. Also, the templates you have available to you are dependent on how your company has licensed SharePoint and what features they have turned on.
In a publishing site, you can control which templates can be used to create site templates. On the Site Settings page, click the Page Layouts and Site Templates link.
Does the 'Fabulous 40' exist for 2010. If so where can you get it? Is there an automated way of installing all 40 on a new install of 2010?
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Stu Pegg
RickyRicky4 Answers
No, but you can build one by standing up a 2007 farm, creating a Fab40 site, then upgrading to 2010, then export the .wsp. Admittedly a bit of messing around, and not everything will work. But the good news is a community member has already created the wsp files and made them available for download, which should save some time.
And to be honest, some of them weren't that fabulous, so think of them as a starting point for development of new site templates.
SPDoctor♦SPDoctorNo, these will not be available for SharePoint 2010, quote from original article:
Microsoft is not releasing new versions of these templates for SharePoint 2010 Products. Also, .stp files are deprecated and can't be used to create new sites when you upgrade to SharePoint Server 2010 or SharePoint Foundation 2010.
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You could still install and use some of them but I wouldn't recommend that. Check this article for additional guidance and links on Fab40 upgrade.
Fabulous 40 are not supported in 2010, and in some environments you'll have issues upgrading them to 2010 (missing templates, templates not 2010 compatible, missing features, etc.)
webdes03webdes03
Somebody has worked on an update of these templates for SP 2010 (disclaimer: not tested):
Another series, for Foundation, here:
ChristopheChristophe