This is one of those minor things that can get you scratching your head trying to figure what the issue is. Basically this menu option is removed whenever a site has Publishing Features enabled. Deactivating this feature makes the option show up and vice-versa. Even when it’s not display there is actually a way of forcing SharePoint to Save the site as a template regardless of whether Publishing is enabled or not. The link that allows you to save the site as a template is “_layouts/savetmpl.aspx” so simply accessing this will allow you to save. Jan 07, 2017 Describes behavior in which the 'Save site as template' option isn't available in SharePoint Online in Office 365 or SharePoint Server 2013. Before you decide to activate the SharePoint Server Publishingfeature or Community Site feature for a team site you should first be aware of the following: • Once the publishing feature is activated the ‘ Save site as a template‘ option will be unavailable below Site Action. • Deactivate publishing features will not show back the ‘ Save site as a template‘ option. • You’ll not be able to ‘ Save site as a template‘ by any means. • Any workaround on the internet to ‘ Save site as a template‘ from Publishing Site or from a site that has ever had publishing features enabled is unsupported and often doesn’t work. Let’s summarize the above points: • The publishing site can’t be saved as a template. • The enterprise wiki site can’t be saved as a template. • The team site with Publishing feature enabled can’t be saved as a template. • The site with Community Site feature can’t be saved as a template. • The site that has ever had Publishing or Community Site features enabled can’t be saved as a template. • In SharePoint Online, if you disabled Custom Script capabilities in Center Admin, it will lead to missing Save Site As Templateoption. • SharePoint Admin Center > Settings > Custom Script. Note: To Show Save Site As Template, Check • Allow users to run custom script on personal sites. • Allow users to run custom script on self-service created sites Changes to the above settings might take up 24 hours to take effect! Some articles suggest a walkthrough to overcome this issue!, I’m here to advise you to don’t waste your time in trying that, it doesn’t work and I’ll prove to you. • Set SaveSiteAsTemplateEnabled to true for your publishing site via PowerShell as the following: • Navigate to • The ‘ Save site as a template‘ should be opened. • Provide the file name and template name then click on save. It will be saved properly! • Now create a new site from this template. • It’ll start working on it. Then it’ll fail with Cannot complete this action. Please try again. Missing 'Save Site as Template' for Publishing Sites in SharePoint 2013?, How to Save Publishing Sites as Template in SharePoint 2013. This has been a limitation since, at least, SharePoint 2007. It's a particular frustration as there are so many features, such as the incredibly useful Custom Query Web Part, that are ONLY available to sites with Publishing enabled. And, yet, at the same time, the ability to (quickly) saves sites as a template is. • As you can see it’s not worked, you shouldn’t trust any workaround for this issue. Now come the time of this question “What would I need to do?” • You should first decide which site template you need to use based on your requirements and if you want to be able to save site as template with publishing feature enabled you should plan from beginning to do the following: • Create your team site. • Finalize all customization that you need in your site without enabling publishing feature. • Save the site as a template and consider it as the Master template. • You can now create sites from this Master template as you need. Meanwhile, you can enable the publishing features on these sites that already created from the Master template. • In a case of you need to add more customization to your Master Template, you should create a site created from Master Template then save it again as a new Master Template version. • In a case of you already activated the publishing feature and you need to save site as a template, you should move your customization manual to a site that not has publishing feature enabled before.
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