I was given a credential for a sharepoint site to change the theme of the existing site. However, it seems that the options for "Change the look", "Themes" and "Composed Looks" all return a blank page despite being a "site collection administrator".
From a little research, I've come to know that most probably, it might be because of a permission issue or URL mismatch. I'd be happy if somebody shed some light into this.
You need to have either Site Owner or Designer or Site admin to change the look of the SharePoint site. Looks like currently you don't have these permissions.
The correct URL is https://sitecollectionurl/_layouts/15/designgallery.aspx
Reference - Change the look of your SharePoint site
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Thanks in advance for your insights.
I created a Template page in one SharePoint site. Now I need to copy that Template page to another SharePoint site. I was expecting this to be very simple, but have not found a viable solution yet.
Here is my Template page...
https://my_url.sharepoint.com/sites/mysite_365/SitePages/Templates/Documentation-Template.aspx
This is where I need to copy it to...
https://my_url.sharepoint.com/sites/my_other_site/SitePages/Templates
NOTE:
My version of SharePoint is SharePoint Online.
I created Documentation-Template.aspx as part of an Office 365 group site. Not sure if that might make a difference.
Thanks again!
Under the modern experience, you can only copy a site page to the same Site Pages library in the same site. You could vote on this idea in uservoice：
https://sharepoint.uservoice.com/forums/329214-sites-and-collaboration/suggestions/35035618-add-the-ability-to-copy-a-modern-site-page-from-on
As a workaround, you could switch to classic experience. Then copy a site page to another site with the URL path to the other site's Site Pages library. Like this:
This still doesn't seem to be an option.
Here's a flow I made to accomplish this
Manually trigger a flow and ask for SourceSiteURL, PageName, DestinationURL and FailAction
Init Integer variable for FailAction
Switch to set fail action from input to Integer
Copy file in SharePoint from sourceURL/SitePages/PageName to DestinationURL/SitePages/PageName
Ok, I am in the dangerous place of knowing enough to cause trouble but not enough to do things correctly; and yet still have to be the one who does the work.
When I edit a sharepoint site, I see one thing, users see something else.
I have SP2013 Enterprise, On premise, SQL 2012.
I have configured Excel Services, Analysis Services - and they work
I developed an excel workbook with PowerPivot and deployed to a Sharepoint site via Excel WebPart
Permissions are set correctly as users have to login to open the site
However...
When other users go to the site, they don't see the information I posted, they only see the default screen. By default it looks like a business intelligence site before I added anything.
In short - the content I have put on my SP site is not being seen by anyone else. WTF do I do now???
Thanks
Did you perform a check-in of your page ?
If publication feature is enabled, did you publish the page ?
A page has to be "checked in" for others to see your modifications.
And if publishing is enabled, it should be published.
If the content of your page references other sharepoint content (file,page,...) they should be checked-in also to be visible to others.
I'm working on remolding my companies current exsisting Sharepoint site. I installed the SP ZAP Slideshow webpart and went to the sharepoint site to insert it, and absolutely no webparts were listed. I went into the provided Sharepoint 2010 central administration and realized that everything seems to be listed as
//usmvwc0wtf1srv.ww005.work.net/sitepages/
When the website were hosting, and it should be listing is
//usmvwc0wtf1srv.ww005.work.net/sites/
I went to the /sitepages website and all the webparts exsisted and worked, however i need to get them working on the /sites page. Is there some way to switch it so it will not default all the webparts and content i'm uploading to the wrong page? I feel as though the wrong default page is listed? sorry new to all this!
Web Parts, which you see listed and are able to insert on a page when you edit it, come from the Web Part Gallery in the site collection. They are usually installed to the gallery when you activate their site collection-scope feature. Check what features you didn't activate in the new site collection - I suspect that one of them is responsible for the installation of Web Parts you are looking for. (The scope of the feature can be site collection or site - check both.)
Another SharePoint question from myself!
I've created a subsite and from within Sharepoint designer I've created a new aspx page, all nice and simple so far. I can't seem to find where I can change the security on this new page, only site admins can view the page and everyone else gets access denied.
It doesn't seem to inherit the permissions from the parent and I can't see where to change the security settings!
Please help, I'm sure it's something simple!
Thanks
Dan
You've placed your ASPX file in a 'bad' place. It doesn't sit where the normal security structures for SharePoint work so you won't be able to set its item level permissions (because it is not an 'item'). This is the danger of giving people SharePoint Designer ;)
Personally I think your page belongs in the _layouts folder somewhere since it seems to be an admin page. In there you could simply secure it by a call like:
SPUtility.EnsureSiteAdminAccess();
Either you can:
Put your page in a library so you can set item level permissions to it
Create a custom control that allows you to call the code above for any page
Move the page to _layouts
From SharePoint, you should be able to navigate to where you stored your new aspx page (probably in one of your Document Libraries). From that location you can either change the permission of the Document Library, or manage the permissions of an individual aspx page.
Please note that it is best practice to set permissions at the Site Collection level and allow everything under the Site Collection to inherit permissions.
Inside SharePoint I've previously created a site template by appending _layouts/savetmpl.aspx to the end of my site and new sites have been created correctly and work as expected.
I've now come to do the same thing again and yet this time the new site is throwing an error relating to the page layout.
The error is:
This page is not using a valid page layout. To correct the problem, edit page settings and select a valid page layout.
When I try to select a different one, there is only the one to select. This page layout is in use on other sites and they render fine.
Has anyone else seen this issue?
All the best
First, if you append the _layouts/savetmpl.aspx tho the url, i suppose you dont have it in the Site Settings options, so you are using a Publishing site. This is because Microsoft doesn´t support this option (save as template in publishing sites). And they dont support it because it has some bugs, for sure.
So, I would recommend not using this option in important sites, or if you plan to ask support to Microsoft in the future.
However that error indicates that the page layout or his associated content type (ou parent content types) are not correctly installed in the site collection. Are you using your own (custom) content types? Please confirm if the ID of the associated content type (something like 0x0100C6739B7D12DE419aA2F9A2F96CC26818) is exactly the same in the Page Layout on working sites and in the not working sites.
Hope it helps
Do the sites/site collection where the templates working have all the same features enabled as teh sites/site collection where the template isn't working?
Can you check the server logs? <12 hive>\LOGS
Did you add a custom page layout, use it, and then forget to check that "save content" checkbox when you saved your template?