RE: How can a user save a document library as a template?

Colleen,

WSS team site's (a.k.a web's) are grouped in a site collection. When saving
a library/list as a template the .stp file is stored in a special library
(List Template Gallery) located at the site collection level. While your
test user account is a administrator of the local web, the account does not
have write access to the List Template Gallery located at the site collection
level. For what you are trying to do you need to insure that the account has
administrator rights at the site collection level.

When you successfully save a library/list to the List Template Gallery you
will notice that the URL is changed, the URL does not contain the web's name
and only the URL to the site collection is remaining.

Also the reason why it all works when you make the test account a member of
the local administrators group it because that account/group has mostly been
give administrators control of the SharePoint installation from the
SharePoint Central Administration interface.

Craig Harrowfield
Senior Solutions Consultant - OBS
Blog: http://harrowfield.blogspot.com

"Colleen" wrote:

> Hi there. I have a user who is an administrator on his SharePoint 2.0 site,
> and he wants to be able to create a template from a document library. This is
> easy enough to do, but he receives the error "the specified gallery is not
> available for this web site collection". I've done some testing with a test
> user account and it seems that you have to be in the local administrator's
> group on the server in order to do this. [I added my test user account to the
> SharePoint site as an administrator and couldn't save a document library as a
> template, but when I added that user to the local administrator's group I
> could.] Do you have any suggestions on how I can fix this without making the
> user an administrator on the local machine? Thanks.
> --
> Colleen
.

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