How to create items in PnP Provisioning in SP Online site templates?

Question

I am creating templates using the PnP provisioning but am noticing the items are not being created. I have this .json file

{
    "$schema":"https://aka.ms/sppnp-extract-configuration-schema",
    "persistAssetFiles": false,
    "handlers": [
        "Lists",
        "WebSettings",
        "Pages"
    ],
    "lists": {
        "lists": [
            {
                "title": "MyData",
                "includeItems": true
            }
        ]
    },
    "pages": {
        "includeAllClientSidePages": true
    }
}

and the exported XML file has the datarows data in it, but when I apply it to a site, the lists that get created don't have the data in it. Does anyone know what's wrong?

Answer 1

Not all fields (especially the built-in fields) could be imported, it will cause the item creation gets failed.

Hence I suggest you only keep the expected fields. You can use Add-PnPDataRowsToProvisioningTemplate to help to add data rows or use below quick way to choose the fields to extract for items.

"lists": {
    "lists": [
        {
            "title": "MyData",
            "includeItems": true,
            "query": {
                "viewFields": ["Title"]
            }
        }
    ]
},

BR