Sharepoint 2007 comes with some out-of-the-box site templates that allows Administrators or Information Workers to readily create sites by choosing one of the available templates that suites their requirement.
The out-of-the-box Site Templates available with Sharepoint 2007 are broadly classified into 4 categories as mentioned below.
- Collaboration
- Meeting
- Enterprise
- Publishing
Collaboration Templates
- Team Site:
- This site is for team members to collaborate on any tasks or projects. To facilitate this type of collaboration, it includes the following webparts
- Document library : To manage documents associated with the task / project
- Announcement List : Create / Manage announcements with the project team
- Discussion Board : A forum to discuss on tasks / issues assocaited with the project
- Calendar Lists : Keeps track of the various schedules associated with team members / project
- Task Lists : A list that keeps track of task items assigned against members of the project
- Links : A single place to keep track of links to sites that are needed for the project
- This site is for team members to collaborate on any tasks or projects. To facilitate this type of collaboration, it includes the following webparts
- Blank Site:
- As the name suggests, its just a blank site with no webparts populated by default. This is a good place for building a fully customized site.
Document Workspace:
- This template is suitable for a team documentation project or a team of technical writers where there is a need in creation and modification of common documentation.
- It has the following webparts associated with it.
- Document Library
- Tasks List
- Links
- Blog Site:
- A site for a team or person to post ideas and observations which site visitors can comment to.
Meeting Templates
Basic Meeting:
- A general purpose meeting template that helps to plan, organize and capture the results of the meeting using the following webparts associated with the site
- Objectives list
- Attendies
- Agenda
- Document Library
- Blank Meeting:
- A blank meeting site that can be customized to suite the requirement
- Decision Making Meeting:
- This template is suitable when the purpose of the meeting is to reivew doucments, lists and other informations in order to make a decision. The webparts included are
- Objectives list
- Attendies
- Agenda
- Document Library
- Tasks List
- Decision List
- This template is suitable when the purpose of the meeting is to reivew doucments, lists and other informations in order to make a decision. The webparts included are
- Social Meeting:
- This template comes handy when organizing a team picnic or party. The web elements included are
- Attendies list
- Directions
- Image Log
- Thing to bring List
- Photo Library
- This template comes handy when organizing a team picnic or party. The web elements included are
- MultiPage Meeting:
- This is similar to Decision Making template but it is designed to accomodate complex decision process. This site comes with two webpages by default and it can accomodate upto 10 individual pages. It includes
- Objective Lists
- Attendies Lists
- Agenda
- This is similar to Decision Making template but it is designed to accomodate complex decision process. This site comes with two webpages by default and it can accomodate upto 10 individual pages. It includes
Enterprise
Enterprise templates are normally used as a top-level or high-level sites in an organizations site collection. It facilitated enterprise level activities in the areas of document management, records management and report management
- Document Center:
- A Site to centrally manage enterprise level documents. It has several document management features enabled by default like Major / Minor versionaing, Require check out etc. This templates includes the following webparts.
- Document Library
- Relevant documents
- Upcoming tasks
- Treeview webpart
- A Site to centrally manage enterprise level documents. It has several document management features enabled by default like Major / Minor versionaing, Require check out etc. This templates includes the following webparts.
- Records Center:
- This site template is used to centrally manage organizations data and data sources. The webparts included are
- Records vault
- Records routing list
- Information management policy
- Unassigned Records library
- This site template is used to centrally manage organizations data and data sources. The webparts included are
- Site Directory:
- A site template for listing, categorizing important sites in the organizations site collection. The webparts included are
- Categorized Sites
- Top Sites
- Site Map
- A site template for listing, categorizing important sites in the organizations site collection. The webparts included are
- Report Center:
- This site template as part of Sharepoint business intelligence solution communicates metrics, goals, statues and business intelligence informations by means of the foll0wing web elements
- Dashboards
- KPI indicators
- Webpages
- This site template as part of Sharepoint business intelligence solution communicates metrics, goals, statues and business intelligence informations by means of the foll0wing web elements
- Search Center:
- A site that enables users to seach for information. It includes webparts
- SearchResults
- Advanced Search
- A site that enables users to seach for information. It includes webparts
- Search Center with tabs:
- This is similar to search center except it comes with two tabs. One tab to search through information in the sites and the other tab ‘people’ that enables to search through peoples.
Publishing
- News Site:
- A site for publising news articles and links to news articles. The default webparts includes
- Sample news page
- Archive for storing older news
Hope this is useful.
A post on creating custom templates can be found here
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