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Thomas N. Sørensen's avatar
Thomas N. Sørensen
Copper Contributor
Sep 16, 2016

PnP Provisioning Framework - Referenced content type not available in site or template

Using PnP SiteProvisioning framework OfficeDevPnP.Core (v. 2.7.1609.3).   Extracting template from SharePoint Online with lcid 1033 (English site) and applying to english OnPrem 2013 site => everyt...
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Thomas N. Sørensen's avatar
Thomas N. Sørensen
Copper Contributor
Sep 22, 2016

It is not a Developer Tenant. Not sure where this contenttype originates from, and as I wrote it only appears in non-english templates. 

For now I have solved it by having code like the following, running on the loaded template when provisioning on-prem:

ContentTypeBinding bindingToLookFor = new ContentTypeBinding();
bindingToLookFor.ContentTypeId = "0x0101009D1CB255DA76424F860D91F20E6C4118";
var offendingLists = template.Lists.Where(l => l.ContentTypeBindings.Contains(bindingToLookFor));
foreach (var l in offendingLists)
{
    l.ContentTypeBindings.Remove(bindingToLookFor);
}
Luis Mañez's avatar
Luis Mañez
MVP
Sep 23, 2016
It's really weird. I tested the provisioning framework some tima ago on a non-english tenant and worked fine. That content type is not documented anywhere, so I'd still think that is something related with that tenant. Anyway, thanks for sharing the workaround!
  • Malathi Sekkappan's avatar
    Malathi Sekkappan
    Copper Contributor
    Mar 17, 2017

    I am using US English, and I am getting the same error while using the team site, I am using the latest PnP ver 2.13.1703.  Sometimes, it works though.  Any ideas?

    • Luis Mañez's avatar
      Luis Mañez
      MVP
      Mar 20, 2017
      Interesting. Now there's much more information about that Content Type. This CT is the one used in Modern Sites, to specify Modern Pages:
      https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/pnp_articles/modern-experience-customizations-customize-pages

      The only thing that I can think, is that if you Export the template from a Modern Site, and apply it to a non-modern site, you could get that issue, as the CT could be not present in a non-modern site.

      Can you elaborate the case when it works?

      Thanks.
      • Malathi Sekkappan's avatar
        Malathi Sekkappan
        Copper Contributor
        Mar 20, 2017

        I tried to filter out the content type, but it does not get inside the for loop of the template I am using so these do not exist in my template.  But, I still got the error.  I generated a new template out of a vanilla site online and I was able to provision that template.  I had some objects that were generated from on-prem, I wonder whether that is causing the error.

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