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Copper Contributor

Sep 17, 2020

Using the Hero web part in Templates

We are keen to move our templates to the new modern theme and make use of the amazing hero web part. We have found an issue when we save these sites as a template and use them to create a new site, t...

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PeterRising

MVP

Sep 17, 2020

SteveTz

Hi, I'm happy to be corrected if anyone knows different, but it was my understanding that the use of templates for SP sites was considered more for the older classic sites, and didn't work so well with modern sites.

There are also lots of great templates that you can upload to your tenant via the SharePoint Look book which you can find here - https://lookbook.microsoft.com/

SteveTz

Copper Contributor

Sep 17, 2020

PeterRising

Thanks for your reply, i'll have a play with the new look book templates.

Beau Cameron
MVP
Sep 18, 2020
SteveTz Yea, Site Templates aren't supported in modern SharePoint Sites. The only supported path forward is to create PnP Provisioning Templates. Unfortunately, this does require some technical skills and some up front work. You can automate some of it by implementing them with Azure Functions + PnP PowerShell and Site Designs.

Please see documentation
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/declarative-customization/site-design-trigger-flow-tutorial