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Can I do this with a solution file?

I have created a number of templates for various types of sites for our internal MOSS. One of these are a customer site that - among other things - has a subsite for all our projects related to this customer.

When I save this site as a template I include all the content as I've created a number of custom web part pages in a document library that we use but there is no way for me to include the project subsite.

Would it be possible to use a solution file for this? According to this MSDN article it doesn't sound like a solution file is the answer.

Is there an easy way to accomplish this or am I forced to create the project subsite manually for each new customer?

Posted 10-16-2007 5:43 PM by MartinNr5

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Aapo Laakkonen wrote re: Can I do this with a solution file?
on 10-17-2007 2:46 AM

One way is to create Site Definitionsout of Site Templates and then use SPWebProvisioningProvider to create as many site as you like with Single Site/Web provision. And yes you can create solution for this, and in fact solution is a good idea for this.

MartinNr5 wrote re: Can I do this with a solution file?
on 11-07-2007 8:55 AM

Hiya Aapo.

Will this include all the subsites? To my knowledge a site template only contains information about the current site, not about the underlying ones.

Or am I misunderstanding something?

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