Stupid SharePoint Tip #3,472,893.1
My blog was getting lonely so I thought I would post a quick tip for people.
By default, when you create a new sub-area in SharePoint Portal Server (off the Home page) it will be a content area. From there you can create sub-areas and whatnot but what if you want the new area to use the News template? Or one of your own custom ones?
- Navigate to your Portals home page
- Click on Change Settings
- Click on the Page tab
- Change the Subarea Templates option to be able to use any template
Voila. Done. Now when you create a new subarea off the home page, it'll ask you what template you want to use for it. I don't know how many times I keep having to do this when I setup a new dev portal and how much frustration it brings me that I have to blow away my area, change the setting, then recreated it.
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