Since this is my first post, I decided that the easiest way to get things rolling was to list out some of the basic information concerning the templates available in WSS 3.0, including the "fabulous 40".
I believe that with the inclusion of the optionally available "GroupBoard Workspace" template, the total list of available templates reaches around 51…and granted, most of the following information can be found on any one of numerous other posts and forums, but my goal here is to simply provide a reference of descriptions for the templates that may provide some usefullness when deciding which ones to install and use as the base for building your site(s).
All the "40" templates can be downloaded here, and the "GroupBoard Workspace" template can be downloaded here.
For a preview of each of the templates, you can download some sample screenshots created by Todd Baginski here, or view some sample sites here.
In Windows SharePoint Services, each of the sites you will be creating, sharing and accessing will all be created from one of a variety of templates. Each of these templates gives you a default layout and content that is designed to assist you in the target goal of your site.
Below, is a listing of all the available templates along with a brief description of its purpose.
Site Template Descriptions:
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Standard (default) Templates
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Standard (default) Templates
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The Team Site template creates a site for teams to create, organize, and share information quickly and easily. It includes a Document Library, and basic lists such as Announcements, Events, Contacts, and Quick Links.
A Blank Site template allows you to customize all lists and libraries to meet the needs of your specific requirements.
The Document Workspace template is designed for users to work together on a document. It provides a document library for storing the primary document and supporting files, a tasks list for assigning to-do items, and a links list for resources related to the document.
A Wiki is a new site template in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 that makes it easy to create, edit, link, and restore an individual Web page. Wikis can be used as creative forums to brainstorm ideas, manage knowledge bases, create designs as well as instruction guides or simply gather information in an easy-to-edit format. Wikis are easy to create, modify, and annotate in addition to tracking contributions and changes.
*(A very popular and currently the largest Wiki site on the Web, is Wikipedia.org - click the link (Wikipedia.org) to see what the possibilities of a Wiki site could be)
*(A very popular and currently the largest Wiki site on the Web, is Wikipedia.org - click the link (Wikipedia.org) to see what the possibilities of a Wiki site could be)
A Blog template allows the creation of a site that enables you or your organization to quickly share ideas and information. Blogs contain posts that are dated and listed in reverse chronological order. People can comment on your posts, as well as provide links to interesting sites, photos, and related blogs.
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Meeting Workspace Templates
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Meeting Workspace Templates
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A Meeting Workspace site provides a place where your meeting attendees can go for the most up-to-date information about the meeting, whether you are managing a year-long project with recurring meetings or planning a small event.
Feature of meeting workspaces include page tabs (accross top of page), objectives, attendees lists, document libraries, etc.
There are 5 templates available for creating meeting workspaces:
Basic Meeting Workspace This template is designed to plan, organize, and track your meeting. This template includes Objectives, Attendees, Agenda, and Document Library.
Blank Meeting Workspace This template creates a blank Meeting Workspace site for you to customize, based on your requirements.
Decision Meeting Workspace This template is designed for reviewing documents and recording any decisions that are reached at the meeting. The template includes Objectives, Attendees, Agenda, Document Library, Tasks, and Decisions.
Social Meeting Workspace This template helps you to plan social occasions, such as a company picnic or a party for your club. You can give it a serious look, or have fun and make it flashy. This template includes Attendees, Directions, Image/Logo, Things To Bring, Discussions, and Photos (Picture Library).
Multipage Meeting Workspace This template provides the basics to plan, organize, and track your meeting with multiple pages. It includes Objectives, Attendees, and Agenda. It also includes two blank pages for you to customize, based on your requirements.
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Additional Templates
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Additional Templates
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The Board of Directors application template provides a single location for an external group of members to store and locate common documents such as quarterly reviews, shareholder meeting notes and annual strategy documents. The template also tracks tasks, issues and calendar items so board members have a single location to view information relevant to them.
The Business Performance Reporting application template helps organization managers track the satisfaction of customers through a combination of surveys and discussions. Surveys can be sent via Office InfoPath 2007 which are then consolidated by the template to give an overall response to a series of questions.
The Case Management for Government Agencies application template helps case managers track the status and tasks required to complete their work. When a case is created, standard tasks and documents are created which are modified based on the work each case manager has completed.
The Classroom Management application template helps instructors and students organize and store information related to a particular class. The site includes document libraries to store assignments and lecture notes as well as calendars and announcement capability to enable communication from instructor to students.
The Clinical Trial Initiation and Management application template helps teams manage the process of tracking clinical trial protocols, objective setting, subject selection and budget activities. The site provides useful Officer Wordr 2007 templates as well as the capability to create, track and
assign tasks and issues related to a particular clinical trial.
The Competitive Analysis Site application template helps teams organize information about competitors and their products. The site provides useful Microsoft Office 2007 documents to perform SWOT and other useful competitive analysis techniques. Links to industry, company and product news can also be included to provide a single location for all competitive information.
The Discussion Database application template provides a location where team members can create and reply to discussion topics. Discussions are organized by categories, which are created by a site manager, and can be linked to Office Outlook 2007 via an RSS feed.
The Disputed Invoice Management application template helps accounts payable departments track open invoices including the potential savings associated with paying the invoice early. The site includes useful templates for analyzing the reasons invoices are being disputed as well as tracking who to contact for more information.
The Employee Activities Site application template helps manage the creation and attendance of events for employees. Activity owners use the site to review proposals for new activities and create event calendar items. Employees use the site to sign up as well as track which activities they've attended in the past.
The Employee Self-Service Benefits Application template provides tools for an organization to inform employees about available benefits as well as enabling them to enroll for each benefit.
The Employee Training Scheduling and Materials application template helps instructors and employees manage courses and related materials. Instructors can use the site to add new courses and organize course materials. Employees use the site to schedule attendance at a course, track courses they've attended and to provide feedback.
The Equity Research application template helps teams collaborate on researching stocks and other equities. It provides a central location for teams to store documents, post links, track news, and hold discussions related to the equities tracked by the site.
The Integrated Marketing Campaign Tracking application template helps marketing managers track the implementation and success of outbound marketing activities. The template allows a manager to create marketing activities and track the results of those activities, such as responses generated and sales completed. The template contains multiple methods of analyzing the success of the campaigns including automated calculations and Office Excel 2007 templates for more detailed analyses.
The Manufacturing Process Management application template helps teams to model and track manufacturing processes as well as tasks and issues that arise in the upkeep of these processes.
The New Store Opening application template helps a team manage the opening of new store locations or re-modeling of existing store location. The site provides a single location to manage tasks, issues, and documents for all store opening processes, enabling end users to view relevant information and providing project managers insight across the entire project.
The Product and Marketing Requirements Planning application template enables teams to manage the process of collecting and documenting requirements for new products. The site provides several Microsoft Office 2007 templates providing useful techniques for Marketing, Product and Steering committee actions as well as a template for meeting notes and financial information.
The Request for Proposal application template helps manage the process of creating and releasing an initial RFP, collecting submissions of proposals and formally accepting the selected proposal from amongst those submitted. The site also helps simplify the process of notifying individuals about the status of the RFP and submitted proposals.
The Sports League application template helps an intra-company league administrator manage a baseball league. The site tracks team information, players, captains and scheduled team activities such as games, practices and social events. Team members can enter in game results and perform analysis at a team, game or individual player level. The site also enables discussions between league members through a League Discussion board.
The Team Work Site application template provides a place where project teams can upload background documents, track scheduled calendar events and submit action items that result from team meetings. The site also tracks the creation and purpose of `sub-teams' as well as enables discussion of topics created by members of the team.
The Timecard Management application template helps teams track hours spent working on various projects. The site enables team members to 'punch in' on a particular project and 'punch out' when they cease work. The system automatically generates the time worked by project, and can show managers who is working on a particular project, total hours versus budgeted time and the details of who worked on a each project entered into the site.
The Absence Request and Vacation Schedule Management application template helps employees manage requests for out of office days. Team members post days they will be unavailable and can use the system to assign their responsibilities to others during those days. The application template helps team leaders manage requests for vacation and provides dashboards showing which users are signed up for a set of responsibilities.
The Budgeting and Tracking Multiple Projects application template helps project teams track and budget multiple, interrelated sets of activities. The template provides project management tools such as project creation, assignment of new tasks, Gantt Charts and common status designators. It helps team members consolidate the status of multiple projects into a single view, tracking progress against a set project budget and timeline.
The Bug Database application template helps development teams collect and track information about bugs in their code. The template allows bugs to be logged with information such as reproduction steps, category, comments, priority, and severity of the bug. Bug categories can specify category owners so users can quickly determine the appropriate bug owners.
The Call Center application template helps teams manage the process of handling customer service requests. The application template helps teams manage service requests from issue identification to cause analysis and resolution. Role-based dashboards display relevant information for each service request and a knowledge base can help track related documents and items previously used to solve past call center issues. Management focused dashboards track performance with metrics such as average resolution time and service request performance history.
The Change Request Management application template helps users track risks associated with a design change. Team members can submit a change request, notifying stakeholders of the risks involved with the change. The application template allows a team member to approve or reject the request.
The Compliance Process Support Site application template helps both teams and executive sponsors to manage compliance implementation endeavors. The site allows users to specify control tasks required to meet regulation requirements as well capture compliance issues as they arise. The application template contains document libraries used by team members to store related files as well as a calendar to track key audit dates.
The Contacts Management application template helps teams manage contact information that needs to be shared among team members. The application template allows teams to enter contact information through a Web-based interface or through Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. When used in conjunction with Office Outlook 2007, team members can 'subscribe' to receive updated contract information whenever other users make changes to a contact.
The Document Library and Review application template helps people manage the review cycle common to processes like new product specification, publication, knowledge management, and project plan development. It combines the functionality of a version-tracking document library with a threaded discussion list to provide a feedback and revision system. This template is intended for teams that need a central location for document review, discussion, revision control, and approval.
The Event Planning application template helps teams organize events efficiently through the use of online registration, schedules, communication, and feedback. Role-based dashboards offer specific information for various event members such as speaker, guest, staff, vendor, delegate, and attendee home pages.
The Expense Reimbursement and Approval application template helps manage elements of the expense approval process, saving time for approvers. Employees can enter expense information into the application template. Approvers can then review the information and manage the payment approval. Users monitor the status of their reimbursement request through a filtered view listing their outstanding requests.
The Help Desk application template helps teams manage the process of handling service requests. Team members use the application template to identify a service request, manage identification of the root cause, and track solution status. The application template provides role-based dashboards displaying information relevant to customer service representatives and managers, including performance history.
The Inventory Tracking application template helps organizations track elements associated with inventory. The application template helps managers track inventory levels by capturing manual input of updated inventory information. Users are notified when each part reaches the reorder quantity and helps these users manage customer and supplier information such as historical inventory levels.
The IT Team Workspace application template helps teams manage the development, deployment, and support of software projects. The application template allows users to update information on projects, tasks, issues, milestones, and bugs. It also includes help desk functionality, making it
easy for team members to guide service requests from initiation to resolution. Role based dashboards provide relevant information to team members, such as unassigned tasks and performance history.
The Job Requisition and Interview Management application template demonstrates the power of collaboration by helping a recruiter streamline the process of filling job openings within a company. The template helps the recruiter manage requisitions, capture referrals and resumes and coordinate interviews. The application template enables people to input their candidate feedback centrally and track hire / no hire recommendations.
The Knowledge Base application template helps teams manage the information that is resident within their organization. The template enables team members to upload existing documents or create new ones using Web-based content creation tools. Items are tagged with relevant identifying information so that others can more easily find the documents and learn from the collective knowledge in their
organization. The template can be utilized in a 'top down' approach, where a centralized knowledge department 'pushes down' relevant content to the rest of the business or a 'bottom up' approach, where knowledge is captured and shared by all users as a normal part of doing business.
The Lending Library application template helps people manage the physical assets in an organization's library. The application template tracks general properties about the physical assets and which user has currently checked out the asset. It also provides a librarian dashboard to help identify
currently available and overdue assets. Automated e-mail notifications can be sent to borrowers who have an overdue item.
The Physical Asset Tracking and Management application template helps teams manage requests and tracking of physical assets. An asset manager approves asset requests and manages the properties of the assets in the system, such as location, condition, manufacturer, model, current owner, and estimated value.
The Project Tracking Workspace application template helps small team projects manage project information in a single location. The application template provides a place where a team can list and view project issues and tasks. Functionality is provided to help drive project status reporting, including assignment of new tasks, Gantt Charts, and common status designators.
The Room and Equipment Reservations application template helps teams manage the utilization of shared meeting rooms and equipment. The application template enables team members to identify times when specific rooms and/or equipment are available and place a reservation for a specified time.
The Sales Lead Pipeline application template helps teams manage the sales pipeline by tracking leads, opportunities, contacts, and accounts. Through role-based dashboards, team members can track sales information, assign open opportunities and gain visibility into the status of overall leads entered into the application template.
The GroupBoard Workspace 2007 template creates a space for a group or team to connect and share information in a collaborative environment, improving team efficiency and productivity. The template helps track team member whereabouts and status, and includes a built-in timecard list and organization chart. Meetings can be scheduled with attendees, and meeting rooms and other resources can be reserved. It also enables members to share phone messages and circulate memos.
Dessie Lunsford