R – How to change the default page for a site in Sharepoint using Team Definition

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I am using the SharePoint extensions 1.1 for Visual Studio 2005 to deploy my website in SharePoint 2007. When you create a new site, there is a new default page with the ContenType: Welcomelinks…. I would like to change this to include my own ContentType and PageLayout in the onet.xml. I am deploying this using Team Definition.

Could someone give me some suggestions, please?

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Did you try applying your module to the onet.xml file?

<Project...>
  <Configurations...>
    <configuration...>
      <Modules>

Create a module element:

<Module Name="Default"/>

Then in

<Project..>
  <Modules>

have something like this for the definition:

<Module Name="Default" Url="" Path="">
    <File Url="default.aspx" NavBarHome="True">
    </File>
</Module>

I think that will at least put you on the right track. I hope.

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R – How to deploy an assembly using the Team Definition in Sharepoint

OK I found a solution.

First you have to add the assembly you want to deploy into the VS project. For example you can create a "libs" folder to store all external assemblies you'll need in your team site.

Then you have to edit the manifest.xml file of your Team Site Definition. You can find this file within the "pkg" folder within your project. Be aware that the pkg folder will only be available if you've at least deployed the solution one time.

OK, now you have to add a new <Assembly> child element to the <Assemblies> element within the manifest.xml file of your Team Definition solution. With the "DeploymentTarget" Attribute you can define whether the assembly should be deployed to the GAC or to the web application's bin folder.

The following example shows how the <Assemblies> element looks like if you want to add the "TeamSiteDefinition1.dll" to the GAC and to add the "TestSolution.dll" to the bin folder. If you need a safe control entry for your assembly you can add this one too.

<Assemblies>
    <Assembly Location="TeamSiteDefinition1.dll" DeploymentTarget="GlobalAssemblyCache" />
    <Assembly Location="TestSolution.dll" DeploymentTarget="WebApplication">
       <SafeControls>
          <SafeControl ..... />
       </SafeControls>
    </Assembly>
</Assemblies>

R – SharePoint Site Definition Files — Page is always named “Home”

Well it depends how the page is designed. If you look at the page LifeWork.aspx there will be a contentplaceholder for the Title. Based on what value you place there your page will get that value. For example few pages has the

<SharePoint:FieldValue ID="x" FieldName="Title" .......

Some has site name appened to it. Look in that tag you can get what you want.

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