List of Default SharePoint 2007 Site Template Definitions

For some reason I can never remember these all so I’m posting here more for my reference than yours but hopefully it will help someone else out.

So, you may be asking…(for example), where the hell did I get STS#0 from?  The answer is pretty easy…

STS = Site Template Name

#0 = Site Template Configuration number.

If you go to your SharePoint 12 hive (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12) and look at the template folder (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\TEMPLATE\1033\XML) you’ll see a list of XML files which tell SharePoint what templates are available to it.  Crack open WEBTEMP.XML and take a look and you’ll see all the WSS templates that are available to you.

Here is a snippet of the XML that tells SharePoint about team sites and its various configurations..

<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>

Now if you check back to my list above, I’m sure you can see now how you get STS#0, STS#1 and STS#2.

*** I’ll try and do a SharePoint 2010 comparison to this list above pretty soon.