Is it possible to update the heading Title of a Modern People Webpart in SharePoint Online via Powershell?

Question

I have a situation where I'm trying to see if its possible to update the Heading Title for the People Webpart through PowerShell. We have a situation where i want to change the heading text across thousands of pages and updating these manually would be a time consuming task. The problem i have found is the Heading Title does not seem to be apart of the Properties of the webpart using Set-PnPPageWebPart the title of which is a parameter is to set the internal name of the webpart as well as the PropertiesJson also only updates the internal name.

I have found that i can get the data using a round about way but i don't think i can set it here.

Powershell: 7.4.1

PnpPowershell: 2.1.1

$pageContent = Get-PnPPage -Identity "test-page.aspx"

$webpart = $pageContent.Controls | Where-Object { $_.InstanceId -eq "[WebpartID]" }

$webpart.ServerProcessedContent

$jsonObject = ConvertFrom-Json $webpart.ServerProcessedContent

$jsonObject.searchablePlainTexts.title

Is there a way that this can be set programmatically?

Answer 1

Hi @Blair Saunders,

After doing some research and test, I am unable to update the title of the people webpart. This property should be the content in the webpart. There is no such properties in pnp powershell to edit. I feel regretful to inform you that it turns out to be a by-design one.

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