Nov 11 2022 06:26 AM
When I want to apply a template to a SP site that I've made, I can choose from a number of Microsoft templates. The tab 'From your company' however, is completely empty.
How can I create one or more template(s) from my company?
Best regards,
Arthur
Nov 11 2022 08:46 AM
@ArthurWW
These are "Site Designs".
See more information here: "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/declarative-customization/get-started-create-site-d..."
Basically you need to create the template as a JSON File
$site_script = '
{
"$schema": "https://developer.microsoft.com/json-schemas/sp/site-design-script-actions.schema.json",
"actions": [
{
"verb": "createSPList",
"listName": "Customer Tracking",
"templateType": 100,
"subactions": [
{
"verb": "setDescription",
"description": "List of Customers and Orders"
},
{
"verb": "addSPField",
"fieldType": "Text",
"displayName": "Customer Name",
"isRequired": false,
"addToDefaultView": true
},
{
"verb": "addSPField",
"fieldType": "Number",
"displayName": "Requisition Total",
"addToDefaultView": true,
"isRequired": true
},
{
"verb": "addSPField",
"fieldType": "User",
"displayName": "Contact",
"addToDefaultView": true,
"isRequired": true
},
{
"verb": "addSPField",
"fieldType": "Note",
"displayName": "Meeting Notes",
"isRequired": false
}
]
}
]
}
'
Then you connect via Powershell to the SharePoint admin side and apply the template
connect-sposervice https://<yourtenand>-admin.sharepoint.com
$d=Add-SPOSiteScript -Title "Create customer tracking list" -Content $site_script -Description "Creates list for tracking customer contact information"
Add-SPOSiteDesign -Title "Contoso customer tracking" -WebTemplate "64" -SiteScripts $d.Id -Description "Tracks key customer data in a list"
Then the design is available
There is also an older solution called "Site Design Studio" that can kind of extract a site script from an existing site.. But the last commit is more than 2 years old and i haven't used it in a while.
https://github.com/pnp/sp-site-designs-studio