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Saturday, July 25, 2020

Save List as a template on Modern Team Site (SharePoint Online)



 If you had experience working with SharePoint Server (2016 and older), you probably remember that to reuse customized Microsoft SharePoint lists (fields, formulas, and formatting, and optionally, data as well), we were saving the list as a template in “List Templates Gallery”.

Now if you are working with SharePoint Online and looking to create a List template and reuse it in the different site collection, the first thing you need to remember is, in SharePoint online you don’t need to save the list a template, each list will be kept as one template and it will be accessible across the organization for SharePoint Administrator.  (Note: Site Owner and Team member only can see the lists templates which they have access to.)

Let’s create a New List from a template (Existing list):

1     1- Select Settings, and then select Site contents.
        Note: to create a list from a template (existing list) it is important to create a list from           Site Content Page
2      2- Select + New, and then select List.
S      3- Select the site that has the existing list, then select the existing list.
       When a new list is created from an existing one, the entire list structure is copied,        including views, formatting, and columns. However, the actual content of the original list will not be copied.
4      4- At the top, under Create a list, enter the name for the new list.
          Note: If you want the new list to appear in the site navigation, check the box Show in  site navigation.
S       5- Select Create.