Specify view for XsltListViewWebPart using PnP Provisioning Engine

[Johannes Ekstrand]

I wonder if it is possible to specify what list view should be used when adding an XsltLitViewWebPart to a page with the PnP Provisioning Engine?

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Yes it is using a extensibility provider in your template see: https://docs.com/paul-keijzers/4594/unable-to-change-view-of-list-view-web-part-csom

[#3]

Hi,

It's directly supported in PnP via https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP-Sites-Core/issues/584

In your webpart xml add one of the following params:

• ViewId (guid of view)
• ViewGuid (guid of view)
• ViewName (display name of view)
• ViewUrl (server relative url of view) 

In my case I have a list view named "Recently modified documents", and added this to the webpart properties xml in my provisining template.

<property name="ViewName" type="string">Recently modified documents</property>

PnP then fixes the hidden view automatically for you.

[#4]

Awesome! That really worked, thanks for putting light on this. Wasn't able to see that when going through the PnP source code! Have now replaced my custom extention handler with this!

[#5]

Awesome, and feel free to change my answer to "best response" ;)