Where to find a SharePoint site’s solution gallery

A SharePoint site’s solution gallery is where you’ll find custom apps or lists and sites saved as templates to be used throughout the site collection by those with appropriate permissions. The SharePoint solution gallery exists at site collection root/top levels only (so you won’t find a separate solution gallery for subsites, just their shared top-level parent site).

There are three common ways you might get to the SharePoint solution gallery for a particular site collection. In this post, I’ll cover these three methods:

• via URL modification
• via modern experience settings wheel
• via classic experience settings wheel

Navigate to SharePoint solution gallery via URL modification

I prefer this method as it remains the same regardless of whether you’re currently on a modern or classic experience page. To get to the solution gallery for a site collection, simply modify the URL of the site you’re on to replace everything after the site collection’s URL with the following:

/_catalogs/solutions

Append this to your site’s URL to access its solution gallery.

For example, to get to the solution gallery associated with Subsite C, we’d modify this URL:

WebApp/sites/SiteCollection/SubsiteA/SubsiteB/SubsiteC

to this:

WebApp/sites/SiteCollection/_catalogs/solutions

When not working with a site collection (or its subsites), you might be working with your root/home site (http://WebApp/). Just add the same suffix to the URL like http://WebApp/_catalogs/solutions.

You can also find a link to your site collection’s solutions in your site collection settings. In the following two sections, we’ll cover where to find that from a modern or classic experience suite bar.

Navigate to SharePoint solution gallery via modern experience (O365/2019) settings wheel

You’re likely using this modern experience if you’re in SharePoint Online (O365) or SharePoint 2019 which gained the modern experience. Even in O365 or 2019, though, you may find yourself on a classic experience page instead in which case you should check the next section on navigating to the solution gallery via classic experience suite bars.

If you’re on a modern experience page, follow these steps to find the solution gallery:

1. Click on the settings wheel (upper right corner)

2. Click on Site Information > View all site settings.

3. Look for and select Solutions under Web Designer Galleries.

Navigate to SharePoint solution gallery via classic experience settings wheel

If you’re on SharePoint 2013/2016 or a classic experience page on more recent versions you’ll have a slightly different experience finding the solution gallery:

1. Click on the settings wheel

2. Click Site settings.

3. Look for and select Solutions under Web Designer Galleries.

Web Designer Galleries > Solutions option missing?

If you don’t see Web Designer Galleries > Solutions setting, you’re most likely looking at the Site settings page for a subsite and not a site collection. Just click the Go to top level site settings link under Site Collection Administration (requires appropriate permissions). Then go back to step 3.