Publish Duplicate Client Side Page Changes To Original Page Within Same SPO Site Pages Library

Problem Statement

 

This article is a continuation of my previous article, Duplicate the Client Side Pages into same Modern SharePoint Online Library Folder where I explained how to duplicate the client side page with all existing controls.

 

In this article, I would like to explain this: If the user makes any changes to duplicate page, how to publish the duplicate client side pages to the original page into same site pages library within the same site collection.

 

As a developer, we have a couple of options to duplicate the page into another modern site collection library or different folder strucutre, but there is no way to copy the pages within the same modern site collection sites library within the same folder structure.

 

Prerequisite Steps

 

Let's create a page and add exisitng below control, or user can add any other available controls. This is just for demo purposes.

• SharePoint Online PnP PowerShell Overview here
• Browse the exisitng pages

Home Page looks like this,

 

 

Duplicate Page looks like this with changes,

• Add new control
• Modify the pages control layout

Approach Overview

 

Key steps to publish duplicate client side page with changes to original Modern Site Collection Site Pages into Same Library Folder.

1. Use PnP Online to connect to SharePoint Online Modern Site
2. Export PnP Client Side Pages Command export pages with PnP Provisioning Template
3. Store it locally.
4. Apply PnP Provisioning Template store it with different name. 

try
   {

         $srcUrl = "https://mittal1201.sharepoint.com/sites/commsitehub"
         Connect-PnPOnline -Url $srcUrl

         $SourcePageName = "home_duplicate"
         $TargetPageName = "home"

         $tempFile = 'C:\CsharpCorner\'+ $SourcePageName +'.xml'
         Export-PnPClientSidePage -Force -Identity $SourcePageName -Out $tempFile

         $con = Get-Content $tempFile
         $sourcepage=$SourcePageName +".aspx"
         $targetpage=$TargetPageName +".aspx"

         $con | % { $_.Replace($sourcepage,$targetpage) } | Set-Content $tempFile
         Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate -Path  $tempFile
         write-host -ForegroundColor Magenta "Page reverted with name of  " $targetpage


}
catch {
    Write-Host - ForegroundColor Red 'Error ', ':'
    $Error[0].ToString();

}

Save and run this script.

 

OutPut Steps

 

Applying template to client side pages

 

Export-PnPClientSidePage Cmdlets applying the PnP Provisioning template and export ".xml" file into shared locaiton. Cmdlets referece can be find here

 

Creation of client side pages

 

Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate cmdlets will create a new page within the same library from download or exported ".xml" file with provided name i.e. pagename _ duplicate

Cmdlets referece can be find here

 

 

Final Duplicate Page Outcome

 

Browse the url; i.e., original page. New Client Side Page will be available with all configuration and controls.

 

 

I hope you have enjoyed and learned something new in this article. Thanks for reading and stay tuned for the next article.