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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://$principalWe...
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