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Danny Foncke
Copper Contributor
Feb 16, 2017

PnP Provisioning Engine template support for publishing pages ?

Is there any news on the support for publishing pages by the pnp provisioning engine. if this functionality is not for the near future, any suggestions on how best to complement the provisioning (...
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paulpascha
Bronze Contributor
Feb 16, 2017

You can provision Publishing Pages using PnP, see an example below:

 

<pnp:File src="mypublishingpage.aspx" Folder="{site}/Pages" Overwrite="true">
    <pnp:Properties>
        <pnp:Property Key="ContentTypeId" Value="{contenttypeid:MyPageContentType}" />
        <pnp:Property Key="Title" Value="My Publishing Page" />
        <pnp:Property Key="PublishingPageLayout" Value="{sitecollection}/_catalogs/masterpage/MyPageLayout.aspx,  My Page Layout" />            
    </pnp:Properties>
</pnp:File>

 

In this example a Publishing page with the filename mypublishingpage.aspx is provisioned to the pages library using the specified Content Type and Page Layout.

 

Are there any specific challenges you face when provisioning Publishing Pages?

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Danny Foncke
Copper Contributor
Feb 16, 2017

Thanks for the quick response Paul :)

 

I provision a site using the pnp get...template and apply...template powershell cmdlets.
I noticed that publishing pages are not included in the template.
Hence the first part of my question : is this coming in the near future.

Second part : If I have to do it myself, what is the best method taking into account that I want to 'copy' an existing page (in a source site) to a target site.

 

If so advisable I can get... the template, add xml to it manually, and then use that extended template to provision the pages. 
I will need to come up with the xml that provisions everything as is on the source page. 

 

Thanks again.

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    paulpascha
    Bronze Contributor
    Feb 16, 2017

    Ah I see what you mean... 

     

    I don't know about planned support. Maybe VesaJuvonen can share some info on this....

     

    We've done quite a few custom development projects in which defining our templates with Publishing Pages was largely a manual proces. 

     

     

    • Danny Foncke's avatar
      Danny Foncke
      Copper Contributor
      Feb 16, 2017

      It would already be nice to have a way to get the xml for a page (the pages) using the pnp engine :)

      even if the engine is not capable of applying it to another site.

       

      • Debayo Graham's avatar
        Debayo Graham
        Brass Contributor
        Feb 16, 2017

        hi when getting the provisioning the template did you use -IncludeNativePublishingFiles AND -PersistPublishingFiles

         

        https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP-PowerShell/blob/master/Documentation/GetPnPProvisioningTemplate.md

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