Instantiate Space Template on creation of Alfresco Site

We could already create custom Share Site definitions (dashboard definitions actually), but in the past one could not determine by the Site object what ‘type’ of Site was initiated. I filed an enhancement request (May 2010), and recently I noted that it has been implemented (already for a while probably, 3.3 or 3.4). Now this property exists (st:sitePreset) we can use it to instantiate a RUP folder structure for a RUP site, and a Prince2 folder structure for a Prince2 site, and so forth. This blog describes my findings and solutions to instantiate a Space Template into the documentLibrary of a Share Site.