The great feature in SharePoint site that you can take the complete site with content as template and can re-use it else where to create a site based out of it. Basically, will upload site templates and create sub sites based on custom site template.
In this article, will show how to create a whole Site Collection based on site template. Create the site template as you normally would be going into Site Settings for that site and then selecting Save site as a template.
Site template will be saved in 'Solutions' gallery of SharePoint site collection. Go and download it your local and keep it to upload later.
Here's the steps,
Go to SharePoint Online administration and click on 'Private Site Collection' and will get below window to provide new site collection details,
Along with all other details, in 'Template Selection' section select preferred language and select 'Custom' tab as shown in above image. Select option '
After site collection created, open new site collection URL. Since the site doesn’t have a template yet you will be prompted to choose one. At the top you’ll see the standard SharePoint templates but below this you’ll see option to upload something to the Solution Gallery of the new site collection. You should select this.
You should see that the Solution Gallery is empty. You now need to upload the template you downloaded from the previous site that was saved on your workstation. To do this simply select the Upload Solution button in the top left and proceed to upload the template from your workstation.
Just before you close the dialog displayed after uploading the file completes you should select the Activate button on the right of the Ribbon Menu to make that template available. Failing to do this will mean that it can’t used.
You should now see a single activated solution in the gallery as shown above.
You’ll need to browse to the URL of your new site collection again but now if you select the Custom tab in the Template Selection area you should see the name of your custom site template as shown above. Select this and press the OK button to proceed with the creation process.
The time it takes to create the new root site in the new site collection depends on how large your custom template is but in a short period of time the new site collection based on your custom template will be created. All you need to do is set the security groups and you are good to go.
That’s how you create a completely new site collection from an existing site template.
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