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Harsha Syamala
May 11, 2017Copper Contributor
Provisioning Existing site with selected SharePoint objects
Hello All, I would like to know if there a way to update an existing sub site (with only few selected SharePoint Objects) using provisioning framework. We have this case for SharePoint Online and...
Steve Borgwardt
May 11, 2017Copper Contributor
If it was just content like that, maybe look at a content migration tool otherwise with PnP you do have the option with the ProvisioningTemplate to specify Handlers which only apply certain elements to the site, i.e. Lists, Files, Pages and in your site provisioning XML template, update the section for <pnp:Files /> section for what should be added. You could also look at creating a custom extensibility handler for the PnP provisioning framework.
I heard the latest version (May 2017) of the PnP CSOM Core and Provisioning engine, the base templates have been updated to be used in delta handling, but haven't tested that yet.
Thanks