WebsiteTemplates

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WebsiteTemplates

Samuel Ochsenbein 21

Hello,
i want to create a WebsiteTemplate for my ShaerPoint tenant, which creates a new Home Site and additional pages. Now i would like to design those additional pages beforehand, like the ones Microsoft gives us as example templates, how is the easiest way to do that? And do i need to do all the Page Creation steps with Power Automate or can i do it also all in PowerShell, i don`t find a lot of information about the website templates, on how they work.

It would be helpfull to see what stepts happen behind the scenes when i use one of the MS Templates, how you did it for your templates.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Xuyan Ding - MSFT 7,601 Reputation points

2022-08-18T02:33:05.123+00:00

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Xuyan Ding - MSFT 7,601 Reputation points

2022-08-18T02:33:05.123+00:00

Thank you for your question. We are currently looking into this issue and will give you an update as soon as possible.

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Hi @Samuel Ochsenbein ,

Creating a site template is actually the same process as creating a site design. After building the base site, create the required site scripts using JSON and possibly Azure services. Finally, the site template can be added to your SharePoint tenant via PowerShell. Generally speaking, we talk about website scripts, where there are many actions available, creating lists and libraries, setting website branding properties page layout, etc. We usually use PowerShell to add create site scripts to complete the website design. Whereas Power Automate flows are often used with site design to track the creation of a site, referenced in the site script of the site design.

Some article references about site templates and site scripts:
Get started creating site templates and site scripts
Calling the PnP provisioning engine from a site script
Calling Power Automate from a site script

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Samuel Ochsenbein 21 Reputation points

2022-08-18T15:27:38.903+00:00

Hi @Xuyan Ding - MSFT

Thanks a lot for the information, ive got a follow up question about that now, i did alredy create a Template, but i wasnt sure how i can change the Page layout with the Template, is there a seperate JSON shema than this one: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/declarative-customization/site-design-json-schema , here i only find the actions for creating lists and so on, but not on how i can change the layout, for example adding a Webpart, removing a Webpart change the placement of a Webpart on the site.

Already thanks a lot for the great help and a good day to you.

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