SharePoint – On-Premise – O365: Site template is missing from a SharePoint subsite.

 

Issue Description:

While we go for subsite creation from a SharePoint site – quite often we may see some of the templates are not available in the template selection – it may be team site, blog site or any other site template. We will see here what is the root cause of this issue and its fixes.

 

 

How to handle or fix the above issue?

Step 1:

Activate the “SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure ” feature from the site collection level.

Example:

“https://globalsharepoint.sharepoint.com/sites/TestSite/

_layouts/15/ManageFeatures.aspx?Scope=Site”

 

 

Step 2:

Go to your “http:///_Layouts/AreaTemplateSettings.aspx”

Example:

“https://globalsharepoint.sharepoint.com/sites/TestSite/

_layouts/15/AreaTemplateSettings.aspx”

In the below page verify that which radio button is selected for “Subsite Templates“. Generally if the second radio button i.e. “Subsites can use any site template“, we should get all the templates in the subsite those are available in the site collection. However, if the third radio button is selected i.e. “Subsites can only use the following site templates” then we need to configure the templates accordingly – so that we will not face issue while selecting the templates from the subsites.

 

 

Notes:

If we do not activate “SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure ” feature from the site collection level and try to access the “http:///_Layouts/AreaTemplateSettings.aspx” page, we will get the below error:

Summary:

Thus, in this troubleshooting technique, we have learned about when site template is missing from a SharePoint subsite – office 365 (SharePoint Online) – how to fix it.

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