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Error - Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate - Value cannot be null. Parameter name: masterPageServerRelativeUrl #1450

Open LouFarho opened 6 years ago

LouFarho commented 6 years ago

Category

[x ] Bug [ ] Enhancement

Environment

[x ] Office 365 / SharePoint Online [ ] SharePoint 2016 [ ] SharePoint 2013

Expected or Desired Behavior

Expect the applying of a template to complete without throwing an error

Observed Behavior

Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate : Value cannot be null. Parameter name: masterPageServerRelativeUrl At line:1 char:1

Steps to Reproduce

Created a Communication site (Topic) to be used as a template. Modified the theme Modified the homepage hero web part by changing text and image displayed Executed after connecting to the site using connect-pnponline Get-PnPprovisioningtemplate -Out F:\LapTop\Projects\SPOTemplates\PNPTopic.pnp

Used a previously create OOTB Communication site (Topic) Executed after connecting to the target site using connect-pnponline Set-PnPTraceLog -On -LogFile "$($pathOFTemplate)log_$($siteName).txt" -Level Debug Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate F:\LapTop\Projects\SPOTemplates\PNPTopic.pnp

Since there was an update, I retried all the steps to see if anything changed. I went thru the log file and I did not see anything regarding this error. The log is attached. log_.txt

Name Version

SharePointPnPPowerShellOnline 2.20.1711.0 SharePointPnPPowerShellOnline 2.19.1710.2

I am new at using the SharePoint PnP and the provisioning so if I am not using this as expected feel free to let me know. I wanted just wanted to perform a "simple" copy of one communication site to another communication site.

ollij commented 6 years ago

I can reproduce this with standard modern Team Site in two different tenants. Only change that my template site has is change of (modern) theme.

If that is done, Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate fails: Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate : Value cannot be null. Parameter name: masterPageServerRelativeUrl

The error goes away if -ExcludeHandlers ComposedLook is added to apply cmdlet. But there will be no modern theme applied to the new site.

According to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/declarative-customization/site-theming/sharepoint-site-theming-csom - "There's currently no supported API to programmatically apply a theme to specific site."

Any ideas?

erwinvanhunen commented 6 years ago

Correct. The moment the API is there (it's on its way) we can implement the modern theme functionality in the engine. It could be an option that is the site is a 'modern' site, we simply skip the handling of composed looks in general.

ollij commented 6 years ago

In this case I can use site script/design to apply the theme because I learned that customer tenant is actually running on Targeted release,

manishkaushal2015 commented 4 years ago

Adding the -ExcludeHandlers ComposedLook this works. Thanks for the pointer to the fix. I am trying to provision image files as part of the news pages. But while generating the template the section does not get added. Is there any additional switch required to include the asset files as part of the template?