Getting new Tab instead of Development for our Custom Site Definition.

Hi ,

we have a custom site definition and one of the requirement is user should be able to see a seperate Tab for our Project rather than displaying the template under Development. for this we have 2 options.

1)if we are generating a sitedefintion using sharepoint solution Generator then open the solution and right click on project properties and select the “SharePoint Solution” tab.
Expand the Solution->Sitedefintion->Manifest.
give the Appropriate value in the Display Category as I gave “Sasi”.


2)if the solution is already deployed and you want to change then follow the steps.

Go to the folder in the SharePoint server:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\1033\XML


Open the xml webtemp file of ur definition.


You will see the following xml :
<-Templates xmlns:ows="Microsoft SharePoint">
<-Template Name="ABC_Site_Definition_11eec25f-6951-462a-a8e5-63d5ae20211e" ID="10000" >
<-Configuration ID="1" Title="ABC_Site_Definition" Description="" Hidden="False" ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/stsprev.png" DisplayCategory="ABC" />
<-/Template>
<-/Templates>
(Remove '-' in the tags)
Change the display category to your project name. This gives the tab as per your requirement.

Hidden=”True” Solves the other requirement it hides the other sitedefinitions which you not required.

So the Output u see as below.


Cheers give a try.