Provision sub site using PnP Site provisioning schema?

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I am trying to provision a site hierarchy using the PnP site provisioning engine and an .xml file.

One thing I am having a bit of a problem with is how do I provision sub sites? I want to provision the following example of a site structure

Start page
About us (subsite, team site)
Resources (subsite, team site)
Community (Community site – site collection)
Documents (Document center – Site collection)

//Martin

robert schouten · Answer

PnP engine does not provision any sites. It is only able to apply templates on an existing site or extract a template from an existing site. So from your code or powershell, first provision a new sub site and then apply a template on it. This can be done using pnp.core extensions or using plain csom/rest api's. Within the PnP schema there is a sequence element available in order to define a site structure (site collections and sites). Only the PnP engine does not do anything (yet) with the sequences.

pieter veenstra · Answer

if you are using PowerShell then after you connect to your site collection you can specify the web that you want to provision your template to.

Apply-SPOProvisioninTemplate -web subweburl -Path c:\temp\template.xml

martin segelfeldt · Answer

Then i need to call&nbsp;Apply-SPOProvisioninTemplate multiple times and split this up in multiple xml files.&nbsp;ExampleApply-SPOProvisioninTemplate -web subweburl1 -Path c:	emp	emplate1.xmlApply-SPOProvisioninTemplate -web subweburl2 -Path c:	emp	emplate2.xmlApply-SPOProvisioninTemplate -web subweburl3 -Path c:	emp	emplate3.xmlApply-SPOProvisioninTemplate -web subweburl4 -Path c:	emp	emplate4.xml&nbsp;What i would like to do is&nbsp;Apply-SPOProvisioninTemplate -web rootsite -Path c:	empootsite.xml&nbsp;And rootsite.xml contains something like&lt;SubSites&gt;&lt;SubSite url="subweburl1"&gt;&nbsp; //Stuff here :)&lt;/SubSite&gt;&lt;SubSite url="subweburl2"&gt;&nbsp; //Stuff here :)&lt;/SubSite&gt;&lt;SubSite url="subweburl3"&gt;&nbsp; //Stuff here :)&lt;/SubSite&gt;&lt;SubSite url="subweburl4"&gt;&nbsp; //Stuff here :)&lt;/SubSite&gt;&lt;/SubSites&gt;

pieter veenstra · Answer

Hi Martin Segelfeldt,&nbsp;that would be a nice idea but that's not how the PnP Provisioing engine works.&nbsp;I created an addtional xml structure that lists out all the sites I want to deploy. Then a powerShewll script reads this xml and provisions all the sites by calling the Apply-SPOProvisioningTemplate multiple times.

nitinkumar kakulde · Answer

I did all try using the sub site structure migration using your mentioned commands for our project. Its only migrate the Site collection level structure not sub site level structure.

What I observe is subsite level structure migration shows things to be done in PowerShell log trace but actually nothing get created in the targeted subsite.

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