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John Wynne
Silver Contributor
Dec 11, 2017

SharePoint site scripts and custom site designs

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Robert Schouten's avatar
Robert Schouten
MVP
Dec 14, 2017

Thanks for mentioning my blog post!

Patrick Abel's avatar
Patrick Abel
Copper Contributor
Dec 16, 2017
Anyone having success with site scripts in their targeting release tenants yet?

The PS cmdlets are successfully adding site-scripts and site-designs for me, but at the moment don't appear to be honoring the association between the two (executing associated site scripts with a given site design).

I'm not seeing the property page processing on site creation (using MS' JSON samples).
  • Robert Schouten's avatar
    Robert Schouten
    MVP
    Dec 18, 2017

    Seeing same results here. But as stated in the message centre: 

     

    We'll be gradually rolling this out to Targeted Release customers in December and will complete the rollout in early 2018.

     

    So maybe not all the bits and bytes are there yet? I will keep on trying and when succeeded, I'll let you know...

    • Expiscornovus's avatar
      Expiscornovus
      Iron Contributor
      Jan 03, 2018

      Robert Schouten, Patrick Abel,  Michel Verwijmeren any progress on your tenants?

       

      In most demo tentants I still got the Initializing notification. 

       

      The interesting part is that currently in one of my newer demo tenants I can't even get passed the creation of the site. I am getting the error when creating a Communication site based on a standard design or a custom site design:
      Couldn't create the group, please go back and try again.

       

      • Robert Schouten's avatar
        Robert Schouten
        MVP
        Jan 03, 2018

        No luck yet...I also tried at another dev tenant and there I cannot even install the site scripts using powershell. I get error message:

         

        Add-SPOSiteScript : The requested operation is part of an experimental feature that is not supported in the current environment.

  • Michel Verwijmeren's avatar
    Michel Verwijmeren
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 18, 2017

    The same result on my side as well.. The page keeps 'Initializing'.
    I tried scripts based on the documentation, but the result stays the same.


    • Patrick Abel's avatar
      Patrick Abel
      Copper Contributor
      Dec 18, 2017

      Michel Verwijmeren good to see it's not just me! I am seeing the same "stuck initializing" behavior when using a 68 web template (Communication Site): 

       
      Getting a few things ready
      We're updating your site with additional components and settings.
      Initializing...
       
      However, for web template 64 (O365 Group Team Site), I am not seeing the panel pop-out at all (using the same site script).
  • Expiscornovus's avatar
    Expiscornovus
    Iron Contributor
    Dec 18, 2017

    Patrick Abel i have a similar issue. It doesn't look like it recognizes the site scripts. I actually used a site script from the documentation:
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/declarative-customization/get-started-create-site-design

     

    When creating a Communication site based on a custom design with that script my new site keeps saying:

    Getting a few things ready, We're updating your site with additional components and settings.
    Initializing...

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