Page Layouts & Site Templates

Probably all of you would have used this setting at some point in your projects, this is for those who haven’t.

As most of you would know in MOSS 2007 Publishing sites, each site supports only one Pages Library. As a direct consequence of this the content author/editor would have to navigate to the desired site(For example- if you have a Latest News functionality in your WCM site and as part of your information architecture you would decide to have a sub site called News, so to add a News article, the content author would have to navigate to the News site.) to create/edit a particular publishing page.

When he tries to create a page, he would be presented with a list of page layouts to choose from. If you want to restrict the list of page layouts you can:

Go into any Publishing site's Site Settings page and look under the Look & Feel column for the Page Layouts & Site Templates link. From this page you'll be able to do the following:

• Inherit the parent site's settings for site templates & page layouts.

• Turn off all filtering for the site templates & page layouts that are available to content

• Turn on filtering and customize the site templates & page layouts that are available to content owners and hierarchy managers.

This you allow you to limit the page layouts/site templates available.

This feature also allows you to enable the creation of other “types”(Blog, Wiki, Team Sites, etc.) of sites under a Publishing site which is not available as a default setting.

SharePoint 2010 provides a Content Organizer through which you can organize content based on a rules engine.