Convert html files to aspx in SharePoint Online

Question

Hi Community,

I have a site collection in SharePoint Online containing multiple htm/html files. In these files, I have links to other htm/html files (href in anchor tags for example).

I would like to convert all these files to aspx and automatically update my internal links too. It looks like it is possible according to this article: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/solution-guidance/security-permissivesetting 

By following this documentation, the renaming process works well but my internal links are not updated. If I understand well this specific section=> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/solution-guidance/security-permissivesetting#what-about-htmlhtml-files-referenced-in-a-content-editor-web-part, it should be done automatically but it does not work... My internal links remain htm.

I did a quick test in CSOM to use explicitly MoveTo api as well =>

$File = $Ctx.Web.GetFileByServerRelativeUrl($OldFileURL)

$File.MoveTo($NewFileURL, [Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.MoveOperations]::Overwrite)

$Ctx.ExecuteQuery()

Same result, files are renamed but not internal links.

Would you have any idea? Or have you already done such kind of process sucessfully?

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

Hi @Alexandre

You can run following script to rename the files in sharepoint

Connect-PnPOnline -Url https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/sitename  -Credentials (Get-Credential)
$listitems = Get-PnPListItem -List "Your list name"

foreach ($item in $listitems) {
  Write-Output "Processing item $($item.ID)"
  $item["Title"] = $item["FileLeafRef"]
  $item["FileLeafRef"] = $item["Code"]
  $item.Update() 
}
Invoke-PnPQuery
Disconnect-PnPOnline

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