Creating site Templates in sharepoint online

Question

Hi,

I am in desperate need the way to create a template out of existing SharePoint site.
I have tested https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/sharepoint-online/get-spositescriptfromweb?view=sharepoint-ps
The issue is this is not replicating the webpart structure so this metho is only copying schema but i want true copy like web part as well. Is there any way?
Thanks

Answer 1

Hi @Audi86 ,
Per my research, we are unable to copy page with web part as a template. There is no such function in powershell currently. As a workaround we can get sharepoint web part alone by Get-PnPWebPartXml.

Get-PnPWebPartXml -ServerRelativePageUrl "/sites/demo/sitepages/home.aspx" -Identity a2875399-d6ff-43a0-96da-be6ae5875f82  

Here is more details in the document
https://pnp.github.io/powershell/cmdlets/Get-PnPWebPartXml.html

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Answer 2

Just to update for those who are looking for solution.

I was able to perform complete site template using PnP powershell module and json config file.
For PnP Template info : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/solution-guidance/introducing-the-pnp-provisioning-engine

For Config file : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/solution-guidance/configuring-the-pnp-provisioning-engine

Only thing is list items dont move using this method but that you can also achieve it using PnP ListsToExtract switch to create list.xml template and adding items in template using Add-PnPDataRowsToSiteTemplate and apply list template to the site created from template earlier.

thanks

Answer 3

Hi Audi86, can you give me some more info about the steps needed to make the template visible in "Apply a site template > From Your Organization", I'm trying to create a template for Subsites, I can aply the template via powershell but I don't understand how to make it visible in the Organization Template Gallery.

The code I'm using from powershell is:

$SiteURL = "https://xxx.sharepoint.com/sites/root/originalsite/"
$jsonConfig = "C:\SubSite\subsite-company-config.json"
$SchmaXMLPath = "C:\SubSite\SiteSchema.xml"
Connect-PnPOnline -Url $siteUrl -Interactive
Get-PnPSiteTemplate -Configuration $jsonConfig -Out "$SchmaXMLPath"

$SiteURL = "https://xxx.sharepoint.com/sites/root/destinationsite/"
$SchmaXMLPath = "C:\SubSite\SiteSchema.xml"
Connect-PnPOnline -Url $SiteURL -Interactive
Invoke-PnPSiteTemplate -Path $SchmaXMLPath

Thanks

Answer 4

Hi Audi86,
I was able to create a Site Template with Json and powershell, without site pages and contents but still better than nothing :)
Thanks