Below are various site templates available for Site Collection and their description:
| Template | Description |
|---|---|
| Team Site | A place to work together with a group of people. |
| Blog | A site for a person or team to post ideas, observations, and expertise that site visitors can comment on. |
| Developer Site | A site for developers to build, test and publish apps for Office. |
| Project Site | A site for managing and collaborating on a project. This site template brings all status, communication and artifacts relevant to the project into one place. |
| Community Site | A place where community members discuss topics of common interest. Members can browse and discover relevant content by exploring categories, sorting discussions by popularity or by viewing only posts that have a best reply. Members gain reputation points by participating in the community, such as starting discussions and replying to them, liking posts and specifying best replies. |
| Document Center | A site to centrally manage documents in your enterprise. |
| eDiscovery Center | A site to manage the preservation, search, and export of content for legal matters and investigations. |
| Records Center | This template creates a site designed for records management. Records managers can configure the routing table to direct incoming files to specific locations. The site also lets you manage whether records can be deleted or modified after they are added to the repository. |
| Business Intelligence Center | A site for presenting Business Intelligence content. |
| Enterprise Search Center | A site focused on delivering an enterprise-wide search experience. |
| My Site Host | A site used for hosting personal sites (My Sites) and the public People Profile page. |
| Community Portal | A site for discovering communities. |
| Basic Search Center | A site focused on delivering a basic search experience. It includes a welcome page with a search box that connects users to a search results page and an advanced search page. This Search Center will not appear in navigation. |
| Visio Process Repository | A site for viewing, sharing, and storing Visio process diagrams. It includes a versioned document library and templates for Basic Flowcharts, Cross-functional Flowcharts, and BPMN diagrams. |
| Publishing Portal | A starter hierarchy for an Internet-facing site or a large intranet portal. This site can be customized easily with distinctive branding. Typically, this site has many more readers than contributors and it is used to publish web pages with approval workflows. |
| Enterprise Wiki | A site for publishing knowledge that you capture and want to share across the enterprise. |
| Product Catalog | A site for managing product catalog data that can be published to an Internet-facing site through search. |
| Publishing site | A blank site for expanding your website and quickly publishing web pages. Contributors can work on draft versions of pages and publish them to make them visible to readers. The site includes document and image libraries for storing web publishing assets. |
| 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. By default, only sites with this template can be created under this site. |
| <Select template later…> | Create an empty site and pick a template for the site at a later time. |
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