Use Templates to Create Group Spaces

Essential to large projects, often spanning multiple departments, is the need to keep each team consistent in their deliverables and contributions. When creating a group space, you can take advantage of a group space that already contains mashups of enterprise information by saving it as a group space template to give other group space builders a head start. Group space templates enable an administrator to create a group space with the specific pages, information, and components to use as a starting point to build a new group space. For example, in annual budget reviews, a group space template can be configured so that each department delivers the same standardized formats and presentations for review.

Alternatively, you can use one of the out-of-the-box seeded templates:

• Group Project template: Provides an optimal structure for supporting a core project team where members might come from different departments to work together toward reaching a common goal. The focus of a Group Project group space is to streamline the process of starting a new project, defining the project team, and executing on project deliverables. This template supports a single discussion forum.
  
  
• Community of Interest template: Provides an optimal structure for supporting communities of people, who join together to communicate, create content, and share ideas to learn more about a subject area. This template supports a single discussion forum by default; additional forums are allowed.
  
  
• Blank template: Provides an essentially unpopulated and unconfigured starting point for building a group space exactly to your specifications. When you create a group space using the Blank template, the result is a blank Home page. The rest is up to you!