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Creating a new site is as simple as clicking Site Actions (gear icon) ➪ Site Contents from the parent site and then clicking the New button and then clicking Subsite on the drop-down menu. On the New Subsite page, you provide a title and a URL and select a template (in addition to some other configuration options). The template you choose determines how your new site will be preconfigured. A parent site is simply a site that holds another site.
Site templates are included in SharePoint Online:
are used only for creating a Site Collection (a container » Some templates are used only for creating subsites.
» Some templates can be used for both.
A site collection is a special SharePoint site that allows you to separate key aspects of the sites contained within the site collection. For example, you turn on features at the site collection level, which makes those features available to all sites within the site collection. On a technical level, SharePoint separates site collections by using different databases. This allows for separation of security and users, because two different site collections use two different databases.
Templates for subsites only:
» Publishing Site: A site used to publish content. The site template is used for subsites that need the publishing functionality provided by the Publishing Portal template.
» Publishing Site with Workflow: A site for publishing web pages on a schedule by using approval workflows. It includes document and image libraries for storing web-publishing assets.
» SAP Workflow Site: A site designed to work with SAP, an enterprise resourc- ing planning software program that aggregates all business tasks for users.
Templates for site collections only:
» Community Portal: A site that can be used to contain community sites. In other words, an aggregation of communities.
» Community Site: A site where members of the community can come together to discuss topics and interact with each other.
» Compliance Policy Center: Contains policies that are used to manage when documents can be deleted after a certain period of time.
» Some templates for subsites).
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