SharePoint Solution Generator::Creating a site definiton from an existing site

September 21, 2007 at 11:22 pm · Filed under Sharepoint 2007

Ok to get started I have created a new team site, based on the standard team site template. I have created two Custom Lists in the site named Employees and Employee Education respectively both with some added columns like Employee Name, Employee Address, Phone, Degree, College , Grade etc.

 

Now lets start SharePoint Solution Generator and start creating a site definition solution.

 

 

1) Run SharePoint Solution Generator.

 

 

2) Click on Site Definition and Click Next.

 

 

3) Now choose a site instance you would like to create a site definition template from, or else you can specify a URL also . Once done please click Next.

 

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4) Specify the location to Save your site definition and also specify the project name.;

5) Finally press finish to proceed with generating the solution.

 6) Click on "Click here to open the generated solution".

 7) The result is a C# site definition solution with the following elements in it:

8) Start debbuging the solution. The following is the output.

—— Build started: Project: Oz Site Definiton, Configuration: Debug Any CPU ——

C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Csc.exe /noconfig /nowarn:1701,1702 /errorreport:prompt /warn:4 /define:DEBUG;TRACE /reference:"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.dll" /reference:"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Security.dll" /reference:C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.dll /reference:C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Web.dll /reference:C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.XML.dll /debug+ /debug:full /keyfile:Properties\Temporary.snk /optimize- /out:obj\Debug\Oz_Site_Definiton.dll /target:library Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs "Site Provisioning Handler\SiteProvisioning.cs" "Site Provisioning Handler\SiteProvisioning.Internal.cs"

Compile complete — 0 errors, 0 warnings

Oz Site Definiton -> C:\Documents and Settings\uzubair\My Documents\SharePoint Definitions\Oz Site Definiton\bin\Debug\Oz_Site_Definiton.dll

—— Deploy started: Project: Oz Site Definiton, Configuration: Debug Any CPU ——

—— Generate Oz_Site_Definiton.wsp file and setup batch file——

Creating solution …

Operation completed successfully.

Creating setup batch file …

Operation completed successfully.

—— Add and deploy Oz_Site_Definiton.wsp to the SharePoint ——

Adding solution …

Operation completed successfully.

Deploying solution …

Operation completed successfully.

—— Activate features in solution if necessary ——

No features in this solution were activated

Restarting IIS …

Operation completed successfully.

========== Build: 1 succeeded or up-to-date, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========

========== Deploy: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========

9) We can now create an instance of our new site definition. If we go to the create site screen there appeared an extra template selection tab called "Development" where our new site definition appears:

 

10) Select your definition as a site template and create site and it all works !!

 

 

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