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Copper Contributor

Nov 07, 2016

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PnP Provisoning to include Sub sites

I am trying to use the provisioning engine from console app. My template is a site collection with few sub sites. When I export my xml I am only seeing the information for the site collection and not...

Pieter Veenstra
Nov 08, 2016
Vijay Rajagopolan,

I agree with Deleted. The reason why you would need to keep your root site is that site columns and content types should live within the root site. Therefore you will find quite often tthat when you update the subsite's template you will also need to reapply the root site as columns/content types could have chnaged.

Pieter Veenstra

MVP

Nov 08, 2016

Vijay Rajagopolan,

I agree with Deleted. The reason why you would need to keep your root site is that site columns and content types should live within the root site. Therefore you will find quite often tthat when you update the subsite's template you will also need to reapply the root site as columns/content types could have chnaged.

Vijay Rajagopolan

Copper Contributor

Nov 08, 2016

Thank you so much that is what I thought but want to make sure the approach is correct and also not missing information that is already out there.

Thanks,

Vijay

Pieter Veenstra wrote:
Vijay Rajagopolan,

I agree with Deleted. The reason why you would need to keep your root site is that site columns and content types should live within the root site. Therefore you will find quite often tthat when you update the subsite's template you will also need to reapply the root site as columns/content types could have chnaged.