Hi,
This is my first post here and unfortunately I’m reaching out for help rather then contributing in a more beneficial way.
As title says we have a site collection where only SCA can create subsites (or change the design of the site for that matter), we are running SharePoint 2013 SP1.
Site Owners can not create sub sites.
Top level site is a portal site, subsites are team sites etc..
We upgraded from 2010 to 2013 however I’m not sure when users became unable to create subsite, I suspect it may have been when we move mysites from our sharepoint-80 web app to its own web app. We don’t use custom master pages or web parts however we run nintex.
I’ve tried the following:
- Create custom Permission levels with manage permissions. create subsite, manage website, enumerate subsite in addition to adding users to the site owner group.
- Ensured that users have read permission on the master page gallery
- Disable and re-enable publishing feature (This was recommended to me but did nothing)
If i create a new web app and site collection its fine however the site collection in question is the main intranet site.
When a user clicks to create a new site they receive the _layouts/15/newsbweb.aspx page no problem when they click on create they receive: “Sorry, you don’t have access to this page ” message.
ULS logs contain:
1st error
Failed to create modules from onet.xml when provisioning site at url “http://sharepoint/testsite“ with site definition “(null)”.
2nd error
Leaving Monitored Scope (Creating Web testsite). Execution Time=1900.1595
3rd error:
SPRequest.CreateWeb: UserPrincipalName=i:0).w|s-1-5-21-2047479520-744375764-1042822891-2048, AppPrincipalName= ,bstrUrl=http://sharepoint/testsite ,bstrTitle=testsite ,bstrDescription=<null> ,nLCID=1033 ,bCreateUniqueWeb=False ,bstrAppWebDomainId=<null> ,bConvertIfThere=False ,bCreateSystemCatalogs=True
If any one could point me in the right direction on how to resolve this it would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Ryan
Hi Ryan,
I had the same issue on O365 – for some reason – the user didnt had access to the “Device Channel” list . I just added the right permission to access the list and then they were able to create the site.
Thanks
BalamuruganK
OK some more information.
I believe it to be permission related, the test account I’m using is a Site Owner with extra permissions applied as above.
The test user can’t create a team site, project site or community site! (other template types are fine).
If i give the test user full read at the web application level they are able to create all template types however for obvious reason this is not a workaround.
Any suggestions are welcome.
Ok so after more testing it appears that only Team Site, Project Site and Community Site templates are effect users are able to create the other template types.
Hi again Ajeet,
Tried adding the users to designers however that still hasn’t worked.
They essentially have full permissions from this point so not sure why they still can’t create subsites grrr.
Thanks for your help on this matter its much appreciated.
