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Rishi Gupta
Brass Contributor
Sep 18, 2018

SPFx extension missing from yeoman.

Hello,   I am trying to build a SPFx extension for SharePoint online. When using Yeoman generator, I am not getting option to create a project for extension. Only option available in webpart.   N...
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Rishi Gupta
Brass Contributor
Sep 19, 2018

The other thing which I noticed is that, target environment option is missing when creating the project using Yoeman. I tried uninstalling Yoeman and SharePoint generator and installed back. Still same issue. Thoughts?

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Rishi Gupta
Brass Contributor
Sep 19, 2018

I cleaned up the parent folder which has app the dependencies added to it and started from scratch. It worked fine. I am not able to see all the options. Looks like it was referencing something from parent folder and skipping the option to select SharePoint online or SharePoint 2016.

 

Thanks for your help.

 

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    Rishi Gupta
    Brass Contributor
    Sep 19, 2018

    I tried to do some more research and found that .yo-rc.json was having below configurations. Since the environment is onprem thats why extensions were not showing. The Yoeman was referring this file while creating the new solution. 

    {
    "@microsoft/generator-sharepoint": {
    "isCreatingSolution": true,
    "environment": "onprem",
    "version": "1.6.0",
    "libraryName": "app-extension",
    "libraryId": "c10653e7-a74c-4001-a1d9-ab6e3a778a60",
    "packageManager": "npm",
    "componentType": "webpart"
    }
    }
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      ariel s
      Copper Contributor
      Jul 09, 2019

      Rishi Gupta  hello Rishi, I'm facing the same issue. I have NodeJs v10.16.0 and sharepoint-generator v1.8.2.

       

      I've been trying to find this configuration (the one you posted) to check if I have the same, but I can't find it:

       

      {
      "@microsoft/generator-sharepoint": {
      "isCreatingSolution": true,
      "environment": "onprem",
      "version": "1.6.0",
      "libraryName": "app-extension",
      "libraryId": "c10653e7-a74c-4001-a1d9-ab6e3a778a60",
      "packageManager": "npm",
      "componentType": "webpart"
      }
      }
       
      I've uninstalled the generator, and re-installed, but still the same, can you point me where is exactly this file? Thanks
       
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        ariel s
        Copper Contributor
        Jul 09, 2019
        UPDATE: Just in case someone is using this tool. I've realized that if I use the Powershell Console, I have the "Extension" option and I can create it. However, if I use Cmder.exe that opcion is not available. I will not waste my time trying to find a solution to this, I prefeer to use PS

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