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Today, I spent almost an hour trying to save a SharePoint site, together with its content, into a site template. I clearly remembered that I saw a link called “Save Site as Template” in the Site Settings page before. I kept looking for the link at several locations very very carefuly. Then I realized that I couldn’t find a link to save a list as a template in the list settings page as well..

I was puzzled and didn’t know exactly what was going on. I thought that I would waste several hours trying figure this thing out.

Luckily the work around is pretty easy. You just need to append _layouts/savetmpl.aspx just after the name of the site in the URL.

So, if your site resides in http://moss/SiteName, the URL would be http://moss/SiteName/_layouts/savetmpl.aspx.

There’s an excellent implementation as a Feature that can be activated/deactivated as seen in the following address:
http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2006/07/adding-save-site-as-template-link-to.html

Well, looking at the dates, someone has realized the missing “Save Site as Template” hyperlink in 2006. I wonder why it is still happening even after 2 years. I’ve installed the SharePoint with Service Pack 1.