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Thursday, July 24, 2014

Some Template Defination

  • Site Template
    • Site template refers to WSP package, which was created by clicking the Save Site As Template link in the Site Settings page. In SharePoint 2007 sites were saved to specific STP format, but in SharePoint 2010 templates are using the standard SharePoint solution package model.
  • Web Template
    • Web template refers to new feature element available in SharePoint 2010, which provides us flexible way to define definition (onet.xml file), which will be used only on provisioning time, when the site is created. There are no references to the definition on runtime, which provide easy maintainability for the definition.
  • Site Definition
    • Site definition refers to classic WebTemp*.xml and onet.xml combination, which are located in the file system of server. WebTemp*.xml file is used to introduce the template for SharePoint and onet.xml file contains the actual instruction or definitions concerning which features to activate when site is created.
  • Portal site template
    • Portal site templates are hierarchy files, which are available when you use SharePoint server. Portal site templates have their own xml schema, which is used to define which kind of site definitions are provisioned and in which order. Good example of portal site template is out of the box publishing portal definitions, which provisioned example www site, with single sub site.

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