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Specifying a WSS Site Template for Team Projects

So, I'm playing around with the Team Suite Extensibility Kit for Beta 2, and I'm looking in to how to specify different SharePoint Site Templates for Team Projects.

The taskXML node in WssTasks.xml holds allows you to specify which template to use. The docs state that the value for the template attribute is a combination of the template name and the configuration id, e.g. "<name>#<id>"

The docs also state that the available templates have to come from the webtemp.xml file on the WSS Server.

The file path for webtemp.xml is:
<%Program Files%>\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\TEMPLATE\1033\XML\

What's interesting to note is that there IS a webtemp.xml file, but Team Foundation Sites apparently use their own tempfile: webtempTFS.xml. If you were to try and make your own template, something tells me that you'd want to create and use your own template, you'd want to store its definition in webtempTFS.xml  The default TFS template, for example, is stored in webtemptfs.xml and not in webtemp.xml.

Existing Comments:

# re: Specifying a WSS Site Template for Team Projects - Posted: 7/13/2005 3:18 AM - By: Nico Stokman
   Please look at the following link to add a new site template to the TFS and let your project template refer to this template:
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=17594

good luck.

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