For creating a list, you can refer to my previous article on SharePoint,
Assuming that you have created a list referrin to the above article, I would be adding columns to the list.
Adding columns to the list:
There are two ways for adding columns to the list.
Option 1:
Option 2:
List is created with two columns. “
Title” is added by default and “
Name” was added by us.
Saving the list as template Once the list is created, click on
List Settings and click “
Save list as template” under Permissions and
management section.
Fill out the information as shown below:
Check
Include Content if you want to include items which are in the list or else leave it unchecked.
You will get the success message after which you can choose to browse
list template gallery or click OK.
If you click
OK, you are redirected to the
List Settings page.
If you click
List Template Gallery:
After clicking on “
DemoListTemplate”, notice the “
.stp” file extension. You can save this and use it in another site collection.
Deleting the template
If you no longer need the list template then you can free up the server space by deleting them as shown below.
Click
Site Actions, List templates, select the list and then click
Delete Document
Creating a list from the Template Click
Site Actions, then
More Options.
Select “
DemoListTemplate” and create a new list using this template.
This will create a new list based on the template of
DemoListTemplate.
The new list is created and has the columns of
Title and
Name.
In this example, I took two columns only for the sake of simplicity. However, imagine if there are more than 100 columns, how irritating or time consuming it would be to create a list with more than 100 columns every time whenever required.
That’s it! This is how we create a custom list template in SharePoint 2010 and then use it to create a new list. This is very helpful and acts as a time saver.
Note: I have used SharePoint 2010 for this example.
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