Add-PnPNavigationNode fails when adding a link to a footer

[jooaij]

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Reporting an Issue or Missing Feature

Issue

Expected behavior

New navigation links are expected to be created in target SharePoint site's footer.

Actual behavior

Links are not created. Error message raised by the commandlet is "The property or field 'ServerRelativeUrl' has not been initialized. It has not been requested or the request has not been executed. It may need to be explicitly requested."

Steps to reproduce behavior

Error occurs when running lines of code such as: Connect-PnPOnline -Url $siteUrl Set-PnPFooter -Enabled:$true Add-PnPNavigationNode -Location Footer -Title $link.Title -Url $link.Url -External

Which version of the PnP-PowerShell Cmdlets are you using?

• [ ] PnP PowerShell for SharePoint 2013
• [ ] PnP PowerShell for SharePoint 2016
• [ ] PnP PowerShell for SharePoint 2019
• [X] PnP PowerShell for SharePoint Online

What is the version of the Cmdlet module you are running?

3.24.2008.1

How did you install the PnP-PowerShell Cmdlets?

• [ ] MSI Installed downloaded from GitHub
• [X] Installed through the PowerShell Gallery with Install-Module
• [ ] Other means

[ghost]

Thank you for reporting this issue. We will be triaging your incoming issue as soon as possible.

[jackpoz]

I opened a PR to PnP-Sites-Core to fix the issue.

In the meantime you can workaround the issue by calling Get-PnPWeb -Include ServerRelativeUrl before Add-PnPNavigationNode

Here's an example with the workaround:

[jooaij]

Thanks for the workaround! That helped to add a single footer link (as in the simplified example), but in my full script I was adding multiple links on a site. For that purpose I had to modify it slightly:

$web = Get-PnPWeb -Include ServerRelativeUrl Set-PnPFooter -Enabled:$true foreach($link in $footerLinks){ Add-PnPNavigationNode -Location 'Footer' -Title $link.Title -Url $link.Url -External $web.Update() }