The fabulous 40 site templates are a set of Sharepoint site templates released by Microsoft that provide enhanced functionality to sharepoint without developing custom sites and lists.
Some examples of sites that come in this package:
Absence Request and Vacation Schedule Management, Help Desk, Budgeting and Tracking Multiple Projects, Inventory Tracking, Bug Database, IT Team Workspace, Call Center
We have encountered an issue on our server farms that have these templates deployed. It seems as though the deployment package does not deploy some of the US English resource files to the sharepoint resources directory (C:\program files\common files\Microsoft shared\web server extensions\12\resources).
If you see errors in the Sharepoint logs like: "Cannot open tsa.en-US.resx: no such file or folder" I can help you out.
To resolve this issue, you'll need to deploy the resource files to their required location.
It turns out that the English resource files are actually deployed, but they are named incorrectly. From my Sharepoint development background in multi-language software, it is a common mistake to to leave your default English .resx file named xxxx.resx. Sharepoint requires xxxx.en-US.resx to load the English resource strings for English regional settings in its applications.
So enough background, let's fix this thing!
Open up the command prompt WSS 3.0 or MOSS Web Front End server:
Start > run > cmd
Change the directory to the sharepoint resources folder
cd /d "C:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\12\resources"
Then make copies of the resources files with the copy named with a xxxx.en-US.resx
copy avm.resx avm.en-US.resx
copy compproc.resx compproc.en-US.resx
copy ep.resx ep.en-US.resx
copy er.resx er.en-US.resx
copy hlpdsk.resx hlpdsk.en-US.resx
copy itteam.resx itteam.en-US.resx
copy proj.resx proj.en-US.resx
copy pws.resx pws.en-US.resx
copy rer.resx rer.en-US.resx
copy tsa.resx tsa.en-US.resx
And there you have it, you should have all the required English resource files in their required location.
Also note that you can create a batch file with the above commands if you have multiple web front end servers to speed up the fix.
I hope this helps someone!
Tags: sharepoint, wss 3.0, moss, fabulous 40, site templates