As the site collection administrator, I created a WSS site with the correct look and feel and welcome page layout our customer wanted and saved the site as a site template. The new site coordinator of this site (different user - has full control) is now trying to create a sub site using the site template.
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She clicks once on the "Create" option below the "Site Actions" button.
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She clicks once on the "Sites and Workspaces" link below the Web Pages header on the Create page.
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She enters a valid Title, Description and URL name on the New SharePoint Site page.
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She clicks once on the "Custom" tab of the Template Selection and chooses the new site template (is the only option on the "Custom" tab).
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She scrolls to the bottom of the page and clicks once on the "Create" button.
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She immediately gets an "Error: Access Denied" error.
So we assumed nothing was created, however when she goes back to the parent site (using the "Go back to site" link on the error page), she sees a link on the Quick Launch with her new site's name. Clicking on this link opens a "Template Selection" page. She scrolls down the list of templates and sees the same site template she tried to use in the original creation, selects it and then clicks on the "OK" button. This creates the site! The only "problem" with this new site is the top navigation settings originally defined are not kept.
Can anyone help me fully understand why the original creation fails and the second one does not I have a lot of site coordinators (with full access) who will be generating sub sites (it's all about self service), however it is unacceptable to have them "create it twice" as it were.