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Enable “SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure” feature. Click on “Manage Site Features” as part of Site Actions in SharePoint. Enable the “SharePoint Server Publishing” feature. Now if you click on Site settings gear icon you can see “Design Manager”.
How do I enable features in SharePoint?
Activate publishing at the site level
- From any page within the site, select Settings. and then select Site settings.
- On the Site Settings page, in the Site Actions section, select Manage site features.
- On the Site Features page, next to SharePoint Server Publishing, select Activate.
Well, to enable design manager in SharePoint 2013, You got to activate “Publishing” Feature!
- Go to “Site Settings” of your root site collection >> Click on “Site collection features” under site collection administration.
- Click on the “Activate” button next to “SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure”.
What is SharePoint design package?
In SharePoint, Design Manager can help web developers and designers build and export the visual design of a SharePoint site collection as a package. This new feature reduces the complexity of transporting designs, and makes it easier for customers to outsource the visual design of their sites.
But the same solution will work to enable the design manager in SharePoint 2016 or SharePoint Online. In SharePoint 2013 “Designer Manager” will comes by default as part of publishing SharePoint site collection, if the site collection is created with team site template you need to enable publishing features.
Why is my design manager not on my computer?
Many times, it happens that the Design Manager isn’t available in the Settings menu, even after the two required features are activated. In that case, just deactivate both the features (site feature first, followed by site collection feature) and then follow the steps again.
If you want your SharePoint site to represent your organization’s brand and not “look like SharePoint,” you can create a custom design and use Design Manager to achieve that goal.
How to enable SharePoint Server Publishing infrastructure feature?
Enable “SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure” feature. Once the publishing feature is enabled as part of Site collection features navigate back to site settings (step 1) Click on “ Manage Site Features ” as part of Site Actions in SharePoint.