Wonder if anyone can advise how I can create a list in a modern sharepoint team site from a template that I saved from a classic team site. I don't see any option from within powershell settings.

I have been getting my head around all the various sharepoint resources and have been creating lists etc on my classic team site for now but our users are starting to use the modern team sites created from Office 365 groups and I really would like to have them use some of the list templates I've created.

Any help appreciated.

Wonder if anyone can advise how I can create a list in a modern sharepoint team site from a template that I saved from a classic team site. I don't see any option from within powershell settings.

I have been getting my head around all the various sharepoint resources and have been creating lists etc on my classic team site for now but our users are starting to use the modern team sites created from Office 365 groups and I really would like to have them use some of the list templates I've created.

Any help appreciated.

Since it took me a while to find and piece together all the info from different sources, in case anybody else is still looking for a simple way to migrate a List including data from one modern SharePoint Site to another (even across tenants), here is exactly how to do it using the \"Save List As Template Method\".

How to move a SharePoint List including data from one site/tenant to another with Modern Sites:

1) On the Source Site, make sure you have full SharePoint Admin and Site Owner permissions

2) On the Source Site, make sure you have Custom Scripting Enabled

3) On the Source Site, get the List GUID by going to List Settings, and then Name and Description and copy the URL:
yourdomain.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/ListGeneralSettings.aspx?List=[GUID]
The GUID starts with %7 and ends with 7D

4) Save the Source List as a Template by going to the following URL (replace GUID with the GUID of your List)

yourdomain.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/savetmpl.aspx?List=[GUID]

Check Include Content

5) Go to the List Template Gallery
yourdomain.sharepoint.com/_catalogs/lt/Forms/AllItems.aspx

And click on the name of the template to download the List Template (.stp file) to your computer.

6) On the Target Site, make sure you have full SharePoint Admin and Site Owner permissions

7) On the Target Site, make sure you have Custom Scripting Enabled

😎 Open the List Template Gallery on the Target Site

yourdomain.sharepoint.com/_catalogs/lt/Forms/AllItems.aspx

9) Upload the template (.stp) that you previously downloaded.

10) Go to Site Contents

11) Click New > App

12) Choose “Classic Experience”

13) Select your Template

14) Everything, list structure, columns, views, data, and attachments will be present in the new list

Scott Preston 

Thank you khildebrand . This approach worked for me for copying a List (with column formatting etc) from a Team Site to a Modern Communication Site. I had to use URLs including the site part \"/sites/sitename\" for this to work for me: yourdomain.sharepoint.com/sites/yoursourcesite/_layouts/15/savetmpl.aspx?List=[GUID]

Scott Preston 

You can try using this approach using PNP Provisioning Templates it's only a couple of lines of PowerShell to achieve, not sure how it operates with Classic Lists but may be ok?

https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/276563/can-i-save-a-list-as-template-using-pnp-script-inside-my-modern-communication-si

Regards,

Seasto

Save list as a template on modern team site

Hi, 

If you wish to recreate the new list from existing list in SharePoint modern site,

You can go to Site Content >New > List 

Then choose \"From Existing List\" 

Then you can select the site across your tenant and select the existence list you need to use it as a template. (See the screenshot)

Goodluck.

Scott Preston I've read this thread and am none the wiser about how to achieve this?  I am not competent in PnP etc but I have created a new team site with multiple doc libraries and associated permissions.   I just want to save it as a template as it would be very time consuming to recreate many times.   Can anyone help (simply) explain why this is not seemingly achievable through the UI - happy to run some powershell.  How did you achieve this in the end?

Please help - this is the end of a long week trawling the internet for assistance and I'm getting nowhere! 

SarahTurner  it's sad that you're stuck with PowerShell or a third party tool to do what used to be a few clicks in classic SharePoint.

• Save the list as a template in the source site
• Go to the site \"list templates\" by going to [your site's URL]_catalogs/lt/Forms/AllItems.aspx
• Upload the template
• Go to Site Contents
• Add > App
• Select your template

Here is an option to get the \"List templates\" link show in the \"Web Designer Galleries\" of Site Settings in a modern site, but you can go around that with the URL I gave you.

To reuse the template it is necessary to place previously saved template file into the List Templates Library. However there is no direct access to this library from the SharePoint user interface.

The workaround is:

• create any new list
• go to the list properties
• save as template

once saved there will be a link shown:

then open this gallery and upload saved templates there!

No need to mention that now new App can be created using those custom made templates

Thanks for the reply. This is something I feared. Are there any good resources/links on using PnP. It's something I haven't dabbled with and I was hoping to have an easy way to do what I wanted.

I have created a blog around this issue. But be aware PnP would be you best practice:

https://sharepoint-specialist.nu/save-list-as-template-on-modern-team-site-not-available-in-sharepoint-online-e85c25a12943