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Nigel Witherdin
Iron Contributor
Mar 07, 2017

Error Provisioning a site containing Lookup column using PnP Provisioning Engine

Having an issue trying to use the PnP Provisioning Engine PowerShell cmdlets to template a site that contains Lookup columns. The site is an O365 site, and the commands I am using are:   Connect-S...
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Nigel Witherdin
Iron Contributor
Mar 07, 2017

I should mention that I am using the Feb 2017 release of the PnP PowerShell Online MSI (https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP-PowerShell/releases/download/2.12.1702.0/SharePointPnPPowerShellOnline.msi)

 

Thanks again! 

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    paulpascha
    Bronze Contributor
    Mar 07, 2017

    I think the problem here is that the Field is being created without the List the lookup is referencing being available. There have been issues around this in the past, see the following issue in PnP repo for example:

    https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP/issues/906

     

    There seem to be more issues popping up recently around lookup fields. There is also this conversation describing the same issue:

    https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-Developer/ApplyProvisioningTemplate-doesn-t-have-token-listid-Project-Team/m-p/49206#M1655

     

    I did some testing and I am able to reproduce your issue. I did the following basic steps

     

    • Create Team Site "A" and "B"
    • In Team Site "A" create List "My lookup list"
    • In Team Site "A" create Field "My Lookup field" referencing "My lookup list"
    • Save Team Site "A" as template using Get-PnPProvisioningTemplate
    • Apply template to Team Site "B" using Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate

    I've submitted an issue in PnP here:

    https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP-Sites-Core/issues/1105

    • Nigel Witherdin's avatar
      Nigel Witherdin
      Iron Contributor
      Mar 10, 2017

      Thanks for the reply Paul - lets see what happens.

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