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SharePoint site scripts and custom site designs
This is a nice introductory article on this topic via Deleted - SharePoint Online Site designs and Site scripts.
"Before the availability of Site designs and Site scripts—there was no easy way to deliver an easy user experience to end users—for creating custom sites. There was no way to customise the Out Of the Box site creation process—other then redirect a user to a custom form. With Site designs we get the possibility to use the Out of the Box site creation proces and choose our custom defined Site design."
The option to trigger a Flow as part of this process for extra customisations makes this very versatile.
Thanks for mentioning my blog post!
- Anyone having success with site scripts in their targeting release tenants yet?
The PS cmdlets are successfully adding site-scripts and site-designs for me, but at the moment don't appear to be honoring the association between the two (executing associated site scripts with a given site design).
I'm not seeing the property page processing on site creation (using MS' JSON samples).
Thanks John, I had a look and it seems this will be a welcome option. A way to programmatically consistently configure team sites or communication sites sounds good.
I did a double take on the mention of First Targeted Release, that sounds a bit of a mashup! Also, I noticed the Additional information link - http://aka.ms/spsitedesigns doesn't seem to go anywhere yet!
- Looks like the message needs an update to get that link live.
The page is live now - Get started creating site designs and site scripts.
Build site designs to provide reusable lists, themes, layouts, pages, or custom actions so that your users can quickly build new SharePoint sites with the features they need. In this article you'll build a simple site design that adds a SharePoint list for tracking customer orders. Then you'll use the site design to create a new SharePoint site with the custom list.
