Newbie: Apply Template across multiple sites?

[dconing]

Hi all,

I'm very new to Sharepoint. My company has set up about 40 sites for our clients using sharepoint to manage the sites. We have one site that we use as a template for all new sites.

I've been asked to modify a form on the template site as well as update all the client's sites. Is there a way to apply a form change in the template site to all other sites instead of having to open each site one at a time and modifying them independently?

Thanks,

Doug Coning

 

[ChaserNL]

No only if you based all the sites upon an custom site definition. Then the sites would automaticaly change if you update the site definitions, provided that the pages havent been unghosted.

But from the sound of it you just made a template of an existing site, this automatically couses all pages (of the sites create upon the template) to be unghosted. So the only way to do it is manual...

 

[dconing]

Thank you for your reply. I thought there was probably a way to do this. I'm new to Sharepoint, though I've been a web developer for many years. Can you point me in the right direction as to how to set up sites using a "ghost" definition so that when we change the definition, all the sites get updated?

Is there a book that you'd recommend that has assisted you?

Thank you again,

D. Coning

 

[Thomas2000]

Hi,

Check this blog

http://blogs.officezealot.com/legault/archive/2004/08/08/2238.aspx

there you will have links to a lot of different resources for sharepoint that might be of help to you.

Regards,
Thomas

 

[ChaserNL]

Here's another link:

http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/48162.htm?CFID=217367&CFTOKEN=8C16AB93-DCEA-752D-AB94A7B3E0BB5E53

If you need more information i sugest you search google with: wss custom site definitions

BTW it might also be a good idea to read this:

http://www.bluedoglimited.com/SharePointThoughts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=4

it will explain what is going on with ghosting/unghosting

Greetings