SharePoint 365 - Site Templates

Question

I've recently create a site template on our SharePoint online environment which did originally have site publishing features enabled. This was done by setting the appropriate flag to enable saving as a template and then using the url /_layouts/15/savetmpl.aspx to save it.

When creating a site from this template i get intermittent errors indicating something went wrong but with no further detail other than a correlation ID. It's not every time and it happens occasionally when using the site.

A couple of questions on this.

a) What with the publishing infrastructure is not supported within Site Templates.

b) What is the best approach to create a custom site template where i can have a custom front page containing web parts and content, based on the publishing page layouts. I've searched through a significant number of posts online and cannot find a definitive answer to this.

Any help is much appreciate. Thanks in advance.

Grant

Answer 1

Please follow the below steps to create Site using custom template :

1.Firstly create site using custom template and select "upload site template later" or "upload solution later".

2.Then go to your created site and firstly enable publishing feature before uploading your site template to the solution gallery.

3.After that just go to the "Solutions" under "Web Designer Galleries" and upload your "Site template".

4.Now go to Site settings and select "Sites and workspaces" under "Site Administration".

5.And you can create your Custom site. you can see your uploaded Site template in Custom tab

Feel free to ask question if you have any doubt.