Site Definition

A site definition is the top-level component in WSS that aggregates smaller, more modular
definitions to create a complete site template that can be used to provision sites.

A site definition itself does not represent a creatable site template. Instead, a site definition
contains one or more configurations, and these configurations are what appear to users as
creatable site templates. Therefore, the STS site definition contains three different
configurations: Team Site, Blank Site, and Document Workspace.

Site definitions are deployed within the 12\TEMPLATE\
SiteTemplates directory and are referenced in the 12\TEMPLATE\<culture>\XML directory in
WEBTEMP.XML files, where the <culture> folder is the locale identifier (12\TEMPLATE\
1033\XML for US English).

Web Template Files WEBTEMP.XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<!-- _lcid="1033" _version="12.0.4518" _dal="1" -->

<!-- _LocalBinding -->

<Templates xmlns:ows="Microsoft SharePoint">

 <Template Name="GLOBAL" SetupPath="global" ID="0">

 <Configuration ID="0" Title="Global template" Hidden="TRUE" ImageUrl="" Description="This template is used for initializing a new site." > </Configuration>

 </Template>

 <Template Name="STS" ID="1">

 <Configuration ID="0" Title="Team Site" Hidden="FALSE" ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/stsprev.png" Description="A site for teams to quickly organize, author, and share information. It provides a document library, and lists for managing announcements, calendar items, tasks, and discussions." DisplayCategory="Collaboration" > </Configuration>

 <Configuration ID="1" Title="Blank Site" Hidden="FALSE" ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/blankprev.png" Description="A blank site for you to customize based on your requirements." DisplayCategory="Collaboration" AllowGlobalFeatureAssociations="False" > </Configuration>

 <Configuration ID="2" Title="Document Workspace" Hidden="FALSE" ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/dwsprev.png" Description="A site for colleagues to work together on a document. It provides a document library for storing the primary document and supporting files, a tasks list for assigning to-do items, and a links list for resources related to the document." DisplayCategory="Collaboration" > </Configuration>

 </Template>

 <Template Name="MPS" ID="2">

 <Configuration ID="0" Title="Basic Meeting Workspace" Hidden="FALSE" ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/mwsprev.png" Description="A site to plan, organize, and capture the results of a meeting. It provides lists for managing the agenda, meeting attendees, and documents." DisplayCategory="Meetings" > </Configuration>

 <Configuration ID="1" Title="Blank Meeting Workspace" Hidden="FALSE" ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/blankmwsprev.png" Description="A blank meeting site for you to customize based on your requirements." DisplayCategory="Meetings" > </Configuration>

 <Configuration ID="2" Title="Decision Meeting Workspace" Hidden="FALSE" ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/decisionmwsprev.png" Description="A site for meetings that track status or make decisions. It provides lists for creating tasks, storing documents, and recording decisions." DisplayCategory="Meetings" > </Configuration>

 <Configuration ID="3" Title="Social Meeting Workspace" Hidden="FALSE" ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/socialmwsprev.png" Description="A site to plan social occasions. It provides lists for tracking attendees, providing directions, and storing pictures of the event." DisplayCategory="Meetings" > </Configuration>

 <Configuration ID="4" Title="Multipage Meeting Workspace" Hidden="FALSE" ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/multipagemwsprev.png" Description="A site to plan, organize, and capture the results of a meeting. It provides lists for managing the agenda and meeting attendees in addition to two blank pages for you to customize based on your requirements." DisplayCategory="Meetings" > </Configuration>

 </Template>

 <Template Name="CENTRALADMIN" ID="3">

 <Configuration ID="0" Title="Central Admin Site" Hidden="TRUE" ImageUrl="" Description="A site for central administration. It provides Web pages and links for application and operations management." > </Configuration>

 </Template>

 <Template Name="WIKI" ID="4">

 <Configuration ID="0" Title="Wiki Site" Hidden="FALSE" ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/wikiprev.png" Description="A site for a community to brainstorm and share ideas. It provides Web pages that can be quickly edited to record information and then linked together through keywords" DisplayCategory="Collaboration" > </Configuration>

 </Template>

 <Template Name="BLOG" ID="9">

 <Configuration ID="0" Title="Blog" Hidden="FALSE" ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/blogprev.png" Description="A site for a person or team to post ideas, observations, and expertise that site visitors can comment on." DisplayCategory="Collaboration" > </Configuration>

 </Template>

</Templates>

Site Definition Project Schema Sample ONET.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<Project Title="My Site Definition"

Revision="0"

ListDir="Lists"

xmlns:ows="Microsoft SharePoint"

xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">

 <NavBars>

 <NavBar Name="Site Pages"

 Prefix="<table border=0 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0>"

 Body="<tr><td><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>< 

    
tr><td><img src='/_layouts/images/blank.gif' ID='100' alt='' border=

    
0> </td><td valign=top><a ID=onetleftnavbar#LABEL_ID# href=
      
'#URL#'>#LABEL#</td></tr></table></td></tr>"
 Suffix=
  

"</table>"

 ID="1028" >

 <NavBarLink Name="Web Page 1" Url="SitePages/Page01.aspx" />

 <NavBarLink Name="Web Page 2" Url="SitePages/Page02.aspx" />

 <NavBarLink Name="Web Page 3" Url="SitePages/Page03.aspx" />

 <NavBarLink Name="Web Page 4" Url="SitePages/Page04.aspx" />

 </NavBar>

 </NavBars>

 <DocumentTemplates />

 <Configurations>

 <Configuration ID="-1" Name="NewWeb" />

 <Configuration ID="0" Name="Default">

 <Lists>

 <!-- Adds the Litware Vendor List -->

 List FeatureId="FBDECD96-62DC-48c8-8F0A-7B827A042FD9" Type="10001"

 Title="Litware Vendors"

 Url="Lists/Vendors" QuickLaunchUrl="Lists/Vendors/AllItems.aspx" />

 <!-- Adds the Litware Customer List -->

 List FeatureId="FBDECD96-62DC-48c8-8F0A-7B827A042FD9" Type="10002"

 Title="Litware Customers"

 Url="Lists/Customers" QuickLaunchUrl="Lists/Customers/AllItems.aspx" />

 <List FeatureId="00BFEA71-D1CE-42de-9C63-A44004CE0104" Type="104"

 Title="Announcements"

 Url="$Resources:core,lists_Folder;/$Resources:core,announce_Folder;">

 <Data>

 <Rows>

 <Row>

 <Field Name="Title">

 $Resources:Litware,DefaultAnnoucementTitle;

 </Field>

 <Field Name="Body">

 $Resources:Litware,DefaultAnnoucementBody;

 </Field>

 <Field Name="Expires">&lt;ows:TodayISO/&gt;</Field>

 </Row>

 </Rows>

 </Data>

 </List>

 </Lists>

 <Modules>

 <Module Name="Default" />

 </Modules>

 <SiteFeatures>

 <!-- The Basic Web Parts feature installs the WSS Web Part entries. -->

 <Feature ID="00BFEA71-1C5E-4A24-B310-BA51C3EB7A57" />

 </SiteFeatures>

 <WebFeatures>

 <!-- The Team Collaboration feature includes the basic site lists. -->

 <Feature ID="00BFEA71-4EA5-48D4-A4AD-7EA5C011ABE5" />

 </WebFeatures>

 </Configuration>

 </Configurations>

 <Modules>

 <Module Name="Default" Url="" >

 <File Url="default.aspx" NavBarHome="True" Type="Ghostable"></File>

 </Module>

 <Module Name="Default" Url="" SetupPath="sitetemplates\sts">

 <File Url="default.aspx" NavBarHome="True" Type="Ghostable">

 <View List="$Resources:core,lists_Folder;/ 

    
$Resources:core,announce_Folder;"
 BaseViewID="0" WebPartZoneID="Left" WebPartOrder="0" />

 <View List="Lists/Vendors" BaseViewID="0" WebPartZoneID="Left" WebPartOrder="1" />

 <View List="Lists/Customers" BaseViewID="0" WebPartZoneID="Left" WebPartOrder="2" />

 </File>

 </Module>

 <Module Name="Default" Url="" SetupPath="features\customsitepages">

 <File Url="default.aspx"

 NavBarHome="True"

 Type="Ghostable"

 Path="PageTemplates\Page01.aspx" />

 <File Url="topsites.aspx" Type="GhostableInLibrary" >

 <Property Name="PublishingPageLayout" Value="~SiteCollection/_catalogs/masterpage/tabviewpagelayout.aspx, $Resources:spscore,TabViewPageLayoutTitle;" />

 <Property Name="Title" Value="$Resources:spscore,SiteDirectoryTopSitesPageTitle;" />

 <Property Name="Comments" Value="$Resources:spscore,SiteDirectoryTopSitesPageDescription;" />

 <AllUsersWebPart WebPartZoneID="Header" WebPartOrder="1">

 <![CDATA[

 <WebPart xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2">

 <Title>$Resources:spscore,ReportCenterOnet_CWP_Title</Title>

 <FrameType>TitleBarOnly</FrameType>

 <Description>$Resources:spscore,ReportCenterOnet_CWP_Description</Description>

 <IsIncluded>true</IsIncluded>

 <ZoneID>TopLeftZone</ZoneID>

 <PartOrder>1</PartOrder>

 <FrameState>Normal</FrameState>

 <Height />

 <Width />

 <AllowRemove>true</AllowRemove>

 <AllowZoneChange>true</AllowZoneChange>

 <AllowMinimize>true</AllowMinimize>

 <IsVisible>true</IsVisible>

 <Hidden>false</Hidden>

 <DetailLink />

 <HelpLink />

 <Dir>Default</Dir>

 <PartImageSmall />

 <MissingAssembly />

 <PartImageLarge>/_layouts/images/wp_pers.gif</PartImageLarge>

 <IsIncludedFilter />

 <Assembly>Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c</Assembly>

 <TypeName>Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.ContactFieldControl</TypeName>

 </WebPart>

 ]]>

 </AllUsersWebPart>

 <AllUsersWebPart WebPartZoneID="TopZone" WebPartOrder="1">

 <![CDATA[

 <webParts>

 <webPart xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v3">

 <metaData>

 <type name="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls.ContentByQueryWebPart,Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing,Version=12.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" />

 <importErrorMessage>$Resources:spscore,WPImportErrorMessage;</importErrorMessage>

 </metaData>

 <data>

 <properties>

 <property name="Title" type="string">$Resources:spscore,TopSitesWebpartTitle;</property>

 <property name="Description" type="string">$Resources:spscore,TopSitesWebpartDescription;</property>

 <property name="ChromeType" type="chrometype">None</property>

 <property name="WebUrl" type="string">~Site</property>

 <property name="ListName" type="string">$Resources:spscore,SitesOnet_SitesList_Title;</property>

 <property name="ItemStyle" type="string">Bullets</property>

 <property name="XslLink" type="string">~SiteCollection/Style Library/XSL Style Sheets/ContentQueryMain.xsl</property>

 <property name="QueryOverride" type="string">&lt;Where&gt;&lt;Eq&gt;&lt;FieldRef Name="TopSite" /&gt;&lt;Value Type="Boolean"&gt;1&lt;/Value&gt;&lt;/Eq&gt;&lt;/Where&gt;</property>

 <property name="CommonViewFields" type="string">URL,URL;Description,Note</property>

 <property name="BaseType" type="string">0</property>

 <property name="DataColumnRenames" type="string">URL,LinkUrl;Description,LinkToolTip</property>

 <property name="FilterField1" type="string">{fdc3b2ed-5bf2-4835-a4bc-b885f3396a61}</property>

 <property name="FilterOperator1" type="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls.ContentByQueryWebPart+FilterFieldQueryOperator,Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing,Version=12.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c">Eq</property>

 <property name="FilterValue1" type="string">Approved</property>

 </properties>

 </data>

 </webPart>

 </webParts>]]>

 </AllUsersWebPart>

 </File>

 </Module>

 </Modules>

</Project>