Hi Ajay,

The term "site template" gets sued quite a bit and can refer to both templates 
and definitions. Which makes everything very confusing for the uninitiated. :)

Site templates can be created from the "Save site as template" link on the 
settings page for any non-publishing site.

Site definitions live in the /12/TEMPLATE/SiteTemplates/ and, as you can see, 
are also referred to as templates. These can have their own set of problems and 
require programming, or at least good copying skills ;).

Rather than go down this path, have you taken a look at the SharePoint Site 
Configurator Feature<http://spsiteconfigurator.codeplex.com/>? I'm not sure if 
it can set the theme but it's worth a look.

Regards,

Paul
Online Developer, ICT
CEO Sydney

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ajay
Sent: Monday, 13 July 2009 1:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Custom theme not inheriting on team site

This is not for My sites but other sites using different templates.
Can you please elaborate little on custom site definition..

This is for client of mine and they are building intranet on their own.. am not 
sure if they will have skills to create custom site defs..
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Paul Noone 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 
wrote:

And by "new sites" do you mean My Sites (which are created automatically using 
the default template) or user-created sites via newsbweb.aspx?



If you're referring to the latter than you could provide one or more custom 
site definitions globally and just insist that they use it.



e.g.



[cid:[email protected]]



Regards,

Paul

Online Developer, ICT
CEO Sydney



From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Ajay

Sent: Monday, 13 July 2009 12:25 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

Subject: Re: Custom theme not inheriting on team site



Hi Paul/Sezai,

This worked fine and we could retrofit the theme to sites already created.

Now the next question/problem is

how to get new sites to default to the correct theme,  as some users are  
allowed to create sites (because they wont have the understanding or 
permissions to go and edit master page settings).

On the page that sets the master page, the tick box to enable all child sites 
to inherit the master page does not stay ticked. When you navigate away from 
the page then re-open it, the settings have "undone" themselves - hence new 
sites don't inherit the settings.

How can I make sure these settings stay ticked?

Thanks
Ajay

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Ajay 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Cheers, will check this.


On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Paul Noone 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 
wrote:

Hi Ajay,



Team Site is not a publishing template. Is it using a different master page by 
any chance? Reason I ask is because I intentionally remove the theme tag from 
my custom master pages to prevent use of them.



Regards,

Paul

Online Developer, ICT
CEO Sydney



From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Ajay
Sent: Friday, 10 July 2009 9:23 AM

To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Custom theme not inheriting on team site



I have publishing site using a custom theme. In this site I have a site 
collection based on team site template but this one does not show the theme.

If I see the settings of team site, it shows custom theme as selected but does 
not apply it.

Other site collections based on publishing template display the theme only team 
site ones do not.

Can anyone help how to fix this.


Thanks
A

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