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Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate : File not Found
Hello,
I have a problem using Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate with PowerShell on a SharePoint Online context.
#website created to be used as a template
Connect-PnPOnline -Url "https://$principalWebSite/" –Credentials $adminCredentials
New-PnPWeb -Title "srcTemplate" -Url srctemplate -Description "srcTemplate" -BreakInheritance -InheritNavigation -Template "STS#0" -Locale 1036
Disconnect-PnPOnline
#website exported as a template.pnp
Connect-PnPOnline –Url "https://$principalWebSite/srcTemplate" –Credentials $adminCredentials
Get-PnPProvisioningTemplate -Out $path/$file.pnp -PersistBrandingFiles -PersistPublishingFiles
Disconnect-PnPOnline
#website created to be modified by the template
Connect-PnPOnline -Url "https://$principalWebSite/" –Credentials $adminCredentials
New-PnPWeb -Title "newWebSite" -Url newwebsite -Description "newWebSite" -BreakInheritance -InheritNavigation -Template "STS#0" -Locale 1036
Disconnect-PnPOnline
#website modified by the template
Connect-PnPOnline -Url "https://$principalWebSite/newwebsite" –Credentials $adminCredentials
Set-PnPTraceLog -On -LogFile $path/$file.xml -Level Debug
Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate -Path $modelePath #-Handlers Pages -ExcludeHandlers Lists
Set-PnPTraceLog -Off
Disconnect-PnPOnline
Error Message : File not found
Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate : Fichier introuvable.
Au caractère Ligne:3 : 1
+ Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate -Path $modelePath #-Handlers Pages -Exc ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : WriteError: (:) [Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate], ServerException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : EXCEPTION,SharePointPnP.PowerShell.Commands.Provisioning.ApplyProvisioningTemplate
srcTemplate File is founded and I can see that it is working for a while (attachments, lists, library, etc.) and this it stop with this error.
srcTemplate & log file in attachment.
Does anyone have an idea ?
- I've found the lines causing the Error:
After each List Instance, there is a Field "_DisplayName" that gets updated: the .xml looks like this:
<pnp:Fields>
<Field ID="{1a53ab5a-11f9-4b92-a377-8cfaaf6ba7be}" Name="_DisplayName" DisplaceOnUpgrade="TRUE" Sortable="FALSE" Filterable="FALSE" Hidden="FALSE" ReadOnly="TRUE" ShowInFileDlg="FALSE" Type="Lookup" DisplayName="Sensitivity" List="Docs" ListInternal="IpLabelCache" FieldRef="LabelId" ShowField="DisplayName" LeftList="Docs" LeftColumnName="IpLabelId" JoinColName="LabelId" JoinRowOrdinal="0" JoinType="LEFT OUTER" SchemaVersion="16.0.162.0" RecreateIfMissing="TRUE" SourceID="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/v3" StaticName="_DisplayName" FromBaseType="TRUE" />
</pnp:Fields>
I removed this Field Updates and was able to apply my template as I wanted. This bug seems to have been reported already (And fixes but not merged yet): https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP-Sites-Core/pull/1911
A common solution to that error is to open the template file look for the File references and ensure that all those files are available on the relative location where your template is located.
For example, if you have a <pnp:File> element referencing a file on "/MyFilesExample/MyFile.txt", next to the template file you will need a "MyFilesExample" folder and inside that folder a "MyFile.txt".
This happens in some scenarios, but it's generally easy to fix as you can just create the required folders and download the required files from the original site that was used as a template.
Note: I have assumed that you are doing this in 2 steps
- create site and save template
("fix" template)
- create site and apply template
Hope this helps
Hi, Yes I have already read about this.
To be sure that it is not this problem, I have made my test on an empty website.
How you can see, my command Get-PnPProvisioningTemplate -Out arrive just after the creation of the website. I haven't added/deleted/changed nothing before...
I have read that it was possible to rename the .pnp to .zip, and to look if there is a "pnp:file" in the <guid>.xml file of the folder named "Files".
But there is nothing....- That's correct, you can extract the contents of the file as if it was a zip.
Check also for other references other than pnp:file elements. For example, a custom site icon can also cause this if I'm not wrong.
It will be worth quickly checking your entire template.
Also, check if the master pages are not referenced (generally close to the bottom of the template)
Jeremy GOUPIL just checked your template and I think it's the OneNote reference on navigation.
<pnp:NavigationNode Title="Bloc-notes" Url="{site}/_layouts/15/WopiFrame.aspx?sourcedoc={137c43e8-57b9-4f2f-a6ba-0d50fa98c1c5}&action=editnew" IsExternal="true" />
Try removing this line and try again as it should work
I'm experiencing the same issue: tried about everything but don't know why I always get this error:
PowerShell_ISE.exe Information: 0 : 2018-09-16 22:45:56.6430 [Provisioning] [14] [Debug] Code execution scope ended 107192ms 656c838b-f844-4709-b8fb-2372ae42169f
Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate : File Not Found.
At line:3 char:1
+ Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate -Path "C:\temp\PatrimoniumTeamSiteTempl ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : WriteError: (:) [Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate], ServerException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : EXCEPTION,SharePointPnP.PowerShell.Commands.Provisioning.ApplyProvisioningTemplateI don't think I'm referencing to any document in the provisioning xml.
xml file in the attachments
- I have also seen this error lately, and it doesn't seem to happen every time. All of the files in the <pnp:Files> node are in the same directory. The template gets partially applied to the site (e.g. Lists/Libs are there), but fails with File Not Found before uploading the Files. Sometimes if I immediately re-run the Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate command it works without error. Bizarre.
Hello Jeremy GOUPIL - Looking at your Powershell code, are you setting a value for the $modelePath variable used for the Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate?
Hi, yes, it is the same $path than the one used to export the template at the beginning.
I can see that SharePoint is reading and uploading things in lists but at one moment, it crashes.
