Hey Everyone!
Today i will talk about SharePoint Site Templates, and explain the main difference between each template and how it is extremely important to have in mind what each version can offer you in terms of features and capabilities to meets your business needs.
So the first thing you must know is there are 3 main categories of templates:
- Collaboration
- Enterprise
- Publishing
For each category you have different site types, when you create a new site the “site type” define the purpose of the new one and includes all the features.
Collaboration site templates:
- Team Site – This template can be used when you what organize and share information with your team or project members, this template includes lists and libraries for: Share Documents, Announcements, Calendars, Links, Tasks, Discussion Board.
- Blog Site – This template can be used when you what announce company announcements, post ideas, observations, expertise with your team organization. It is easy start a new blog, including Comments and Links.
- Project Site – With this site template it is so much easy to manage your projects, it is an upgrade of Team Site but this one have more functionalities including Projects Summary, Task Lists. Calendar Sharing, Task Scheduler, Visual Timeline of the Project’s Tasks.
- Community Site – It is more than a Blog Site, this template you can create a place where you can discuss topics that you have in common with others team members, it is more easy and you have more benefits over email, with a full retention of discussion history in compliance with corporate guidelines.
Enterprise site templates:
- Document Center Site – This template is indicated when you want manage large numbers of documents, it is more easy create folder structures and use file versions also you can use workflows to control document life cycles.
- Records Center Site – This template is indicated when you what organize, store and manage records such as legal or financial documents, the site includes versioning, auditing, metadata management, eDiscovery feature to help manage records more effectively.
- Business Intelligence (BI) Center Site – This is one of my favorite site template, you can store, manage, share and view business reports, scorecards and dashboards. This template includes Performance Point Service, a service very important to build dashboards inside of SharePoint.
- Search Center (Enterprise or Basic) Site – A template dedicated to search features where you can search and apply refiners to your search results.
Publishing site templates:
- Publishing Site – The template indicated when you want create enterprise intranets, communication portals and public websites. This template by default have publishing features enable including Page Layouts, Column Types, Web Parts, Lists and very important Documents and image libraries for storing web publishing assets.
- Publishing Site with Workflow – Use the Publishing site with workflow to publish web pages on a schedule by using approval workflows. It includes document and image libraries for storing web publishing assets.
- Enterprise Wiki – It is a publishing site for sharing and updating large volumes of information across an enterprise, your organization can centralized knowledge repository.
The follow table show all Templates available for each SharePoint version.
Category |
Site Type |
Template ID |
Site Collection |
Site |
SharePoint Server 2013 |
SharePoint Foundation 2013 |
SharePoint Server 2016 |
SharePoint Online |
| Collaboration | Team | STS#0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Collaboration | Blog | BLOG#0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Collaboration | Project | PROJECTSITE#0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Collaboration | Community | SPSCOMMU#0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Enterprise | Document Center | BDR#0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Enterprise | Records Center | OFFILE#1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Enterprise | Business Intelligence Center | BICenterSite#0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Enterprise | Enterprise Search Center | SRCHCEN#0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Enterprise | Basic Search Center | SRCHCENTERLITE#0 | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Publishing | Publishing Site | BLANKINTERNET#0 | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Publishing | Publishing Site with Workflow | BLANKINTERNET#2 | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Publishing | Enterprise Wiki | ENTERWIKI#0 | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Also you have different types of site template variation, the following table show ALL the Template ID available, and you can you use powershell command to create them.
New-SPWeb http://createIT/blog -Template "BLOG#0"
Template ID |
Title |
| GLOBAL#0 | Global template |
| STS#0 | Team Site |
| STS#1 | Blank Site |
| STS#2 | Document Workspace |
| MPS#0 | Basic Meeting Workspace |
| MPS#1 | Blank Meeting Workspace |
| MPS#2 | Decision Meeting Workspace |
| MPS#3 | Social Meeting Workspace |
| MPS#4 | Multipage Meeting Workspace |
| CENTRALADMIN#0 | Central Admin Site |
| WIKI#0 | Wiki Site |
| BLOG#0 | Blog |
| SGS#0 | Group Work Site |
| TENANTADMIN#0 | Tenant Admin Site |
| APP#0 | App Template |
| APPCATALOG#0 | App Catalog Site |
| ACCSRV#0 | Access Services Site |
| ACCSRV#1 | Assets Web Database |
| ACCSRV#3 | Charitable Contributions Web Database |
| ACCSRV#4 | Contacts Web Database |
| ACCSRV#5 | Projects Web Database |
| ACCSRV#6 | Issues Web Database |
| ACCSVC#0 | Access Services Site Internal |
| ACCSVC#1 | Access Services Site |
| BDR#0 | Document Center |
| DEV#0 | Developer Site |
| DOCMARKETPLACESITE#0 | Academic Library |
| EDISC#0 | eDiscovery Center |
| EDISC#1 | eDiscovery Case |
| OFFILE#0 | (obsolete) Records Center |
| OFFILE#1 | Records Center |
| OSRV#0 | Shared Services Administration Site |
| PPSMASite#0 | PerformancePoint |
| BICenterSite#0 | Business Intelligence Center |
| SPS#0 | SharePoint Portal Server Site |
| SPSPERS#0 | SharePoint Portal Server Personal Space |
| SPSPERS#2 | Storage And Social SharePoint Portal Server Personal Space |
| SPSPERS#3 | Storage Only SharePoint Portal Server Personal Space |
| SPSPERS#4 | Social Only SharePoint Portal Server Personal Space |
| SPSPERS#5 | Empty SharePoint Portal Server Personal Space |
| SPSMSITE#0 | Personalization Site |
| SPSTOC#0 | Contents area Template |
| SPSTOPIC#0 | Topic area template |
| SPSNEWS#0 | News Site |
| CMSPUBLISHING#0 | Publishing Site |
| BLANKINTERNET#0 | Publishing Site |
| BLANKINTERNET#1 | Press Releases Site |
| BLANKINTERNET#2 | Publishing Site with Workflow |
| SPSNHOME#0 | News Site |
| SPSSITES#0 | Site Directory |
| SPSCOMMU#0 | Community area template |
| SPSREPORTCENTER#0 | Report Center |
| SPSPORTAL#0 | Collaboration Portal |
| SRCHCEN#0 | Enterprise Search Center |
| PROFILES#0 | Profiles |
| BLANKINTERNETCONTAINER#0 | Publishing Portal |
| SPSMSITEHOST#0 | My Site Host |
| ENTERWIKI#0 | Enterprise Wiki |
| PROJECTSITE#0 | Project Site |
| PRODUCTCATALOG#0 | Product Catalog |
| COMMUNITY#0 | Community Site |
| COMMUNITYPORTAL#0 | Community Portal |
| SRCHCENTERLITE#0 | Basic Search Center |
| SRCHCENTERLITE#1 | Basic Search Center |
| SRCHCENTERFAST#0 | FAST Search Center |
| VISPRUS#0 | Visio Process Repository |
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Using templates to create different kinds of SharePoint sites
SharePoint templates and their IDs
Thanks
Fábio Carvalho
SharePoint Consultant
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Very clear article, This is a great way for a simple quick start with SharePoint templates concept.
Hi Fábio,
Thank you for your article. I have a quick question regarding the templates. In Office365 SharePoint, I want to edit the PROJECTSITE#0 template to change the layout so that all sub-sites under a site collection that are to be created using the PROJECTSITE#0 template have that new layout I created. Is this possible? If so, how does one edit PROJECTSITE#0 in O365 SharePoint? One of the changes I’d like to make is to permanently hide the left nav bar.
Any suggestions/comments much appreciated. Thank you!
it would help (a lot) if you did not use a black background (at least in chrome), this site shows up with black text on a black background…
Hi David,
These posts were migrated from an old blog and some theming issues are bound to happen. Thanks for the heads up! Changed the font color.