Background Information
To customize your WSS template, you must perform a
series of three high-level steps, which are:
·
Create a new site to work on your custom template
·
Export your newly modified template
·
Import the template for use with Project Server
Create a new site and
customize your template
1. Browse to
Project Web Access, and click On Admin, Manage Windows SharePoint Services,
Manage SharePoint Sites.
2. Click the Site
Administration Link. This opens the Site Settings page in a new window.
3. On the Site
Settings page, click Manage Sites and Workspaces in the Administration section.
4. Click Create
at the top to create a new site
5. Give your new
site a Title such as Template, supply the Web Site Address
and then click the Create button.
6. In the
Template selection area, choose the Project Workspace, and click OK.
A window now appears containing the template site that
you just created. At this point, customize this site to your needs by adding
extra fields to lists such as Issues and Risks, or by applying new themes to the
site.
Warning: Changing some field values, such as
"status" in Risks, can cause malfunctions in program logic.
Export the template site
1. In the home page of your
template site, click "Site Settings", then "Go to Site Administration".
2. Click "Save site as a
template"
3. Give the file a name, such
as "template", and supply a Template Title, again such as "Template".
4. On the next page, click the
"Site template gallery" link.
5. In the Site Template
Gallery, click the name of the site that you just created.
6. In the dialog that asks you
to save the template file to your local machine, save this file in a location
such as c:\temp.
Import the file into the
server as a template
1. Working
directly on the server, copy the file that you created in the second step to a
location on the server itself
2. Open up a command prompt on
the server, type:
cd c:\Program
Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\BIN <enter>
3. In the same
command window type:
stsadm.exe -o addtemplate -filename <name of the file
created> - title <title of the site> <enter>
4. If successful,
you receive a message stating that IIS needs to be restarted.
5. In the same
command window type
iisreset
6. Browse to
Project Web Access, Admin, Manage Windows Sharepoint
Services, Site Provisioning Settings.
7. In the Site
Template field, you can now select the template that you just uploaded.