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Abel García Celestrín
Copper Contributor
Jan 25, 2017
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Get-PnPProvisioningTemplate and workflows

In my today's SharePoint situation I need to replicate an website from a dev environment into another dev environment (without content, only structures). I have been looking to the   Get-PnPProvis...
  • Luis Mañez's avatar
    Luis Mañez
    Jan 26, 2017
    According to PnP-Core code, the ObjectWorkflow ObjectHandler should extract Workflows lists, so, as Paul said, did you try with latest version?

    Also, you can enable Debug before running the Get-PnPProvisioning template:
    Set-SPOTraceLog -On -Level Debug
    and let us know if there's any error.
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Deleted
Jan 26, 2017

It will work with both as 2010 and 2013 deliver xaml.

Abel García Celestrín's avatar
Abel García Celestrín
Copper Contributor
Jan 30, 2017

Hi Paul, 

 

I keep struggling with the provisioning templates for sites containing 2010 Workflows.

 

These are the commands I have tried:

 

Get-PnPProvisioningTemplate -Out $templateFolder\full.pnp

Get-PnPProvisioningTemplate -Out $templateFolder\wfl.pnp -Handlers Workflows

 

In both cases when I inspect the zip file I find this (no xaml files whatsoever):

 

  • Deleted's avatar
    Deleted
    Jan 31, 2017

    strange maybe VesaJuvonen can take  a look at it.

    • VesaJuvonen's avatar
      VesaJuvonen
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      Jan 31, 2017

      PnP provisioning engine export does not support unfortunately SP2010 workflows. 2013's are supported. SP2010 workflows are using slightly different API surface and file format. Even though theoretically exporting SP2010 workflows could be done in some level, exporting any custom workflows with code behinds would not work and experience inadequate. 

      • Abel García Celestrín's avatar
        Abel García Celestrín
        Copper Contributor
        Jan 31, 2017
        Can you please point me to some resources so I can read more about the "theoretically exporting SP2010 workflows could be done in some level" part?

        I have to create 4 site collections with the same workflow and so far it seems that the only way to do it is to replicate the wf manually all 4 times. The workflow is quite big with about 20 activities including custom tasks. For what is worth I am using SP 2013 / SP Designer 2013 / WF 2010.

        Thanks!

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