The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac

Shane,

Here's an article I threw together on developing a simple Feature that will add the "Save site as template" link to the Look and Feel menu on Site Settings pages for you.

http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2006/07/adding-save-site-as-template-link-to.html

Oup's , i just discover the link of Tony

In fact, i made the same job but with a site collection focus (with hidinig the original) and some install bat

http://blog.spsclerics.com/archive/2006/07/31/218579.aspx

Anyway : two feature is better than just one :D

Tony/Shane, Thanks for sharing the information. Now I am able to save Sub-sites as Template. But while doing this I came accross yet another problem. Following are the details of steps I did: 1. I created a Site under a Site-Collection using "Wiki Site" Template, --Success 2. Then I saved the Sub-Site as Template, --Success 3. In the same Site-Collection, I started creating new Sub-Site this time using the template I saved. --Error -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cannot open "Test/Wiki Pages/Home.aspx": no such file or folder. Troubleshoot issues with Windows SharePoint Services. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Where as when I tried doing the same steps with "Blog" template instead of "Wiki Site" (Mentioned in Step 1) everything worked fine. That means there is some problem in the "Wiki Site" Template. It will be great if you can give some solution to this problem in this post as it is related to saving of site templates. Thanks..

Nice tip! Thanks, S.S. Ahmed www.walisystems.com --

I still have the same issue in RTM release....Oops

Thanks, this is a really useful tip!

Hi,

I created a site template (after applying the hotfix) and restored the same to a newly created site. It works fine if the content is not included. But, the problem is that if the 'Include Content' is selected and if a list is having a column type as User or Group then the information is not displayed in the list items. Does anyone have pointers in this regards? Please help.

Thanks,

Sunil

forums.microsoft.com/.../ShowPost.aspx

Doesn't anyone else run into this issue? I do, but the proposed solution here doesn't work for me.

Slick- I've been used to the "paste a /_layouts/1033/..." trick in SharePoint 2003 for certain operations (like managing the Site Users for a specific WSS site).

This info and technique is a good find- I just used it to create some templates for a few MOSS web applications.

Thanks!

Great, thanks. Thats twice I've needed this from your site.

Thanks for the tip!

I have tried this but it does not work for me I am using SP2007 and when i follow the steps i get the error message "'urlname' contains illegal character'/'. have tried losing / but does not resolve.... dont know what to do next, help???