Finding identity of page in PnpPowerShell in SharePoint Online

Question

I have a PnP PowerShell script that takes items from an announcements list and creates news posts in SharePoint Online. It keeps the original author and creation date of the post. This script is run during migration work to O365, to keep the new site updated.

Now I have updated to the latest version of PnP and the script stopped working. I used Add-PnpClientSidePage, Set-PnpClientSidePage and Add-PnPClientSideText before, but with this version I was recommended to use Add-PnPPage, Set-PnPPage and Add-PnPTextPart, and since it stopped working anyway with the old commandlets, I tried the new ones.

In the code I am having issues finding the pages I created (so right now I can only generate empty pages):

Set-PnPPage : Page My page.aspx cannot be found.
Add-PnPPageTextPart : Page My page.aspx cannot be found.
Set-PnPListItem : Cannot bind argument to parameter 'Identity' because it is null.

I do not know what the syntax [-Identity] <PagePipeBind> means for Set-PnPPage.

What should I write to get my script back to running again?

[CmdletBinding()]
param (

    [Parameter(Mandatory = $true, HelpMessage = "Url of the site that should have news added")]
    [string]$SourceUrl
)
begin
{
    Write-Host "Connecting to " $SourceUrl
    
    Connect-PnPOnline -Url $SourceUrl -UseWebLogin
    Start-Sleep -s 3 
}
process 
{   

    $targetList = "News"
    $ListItems = Get-PnPListItem -List $targetList -Fields $fields | select -Last 1

    $ListItems | ForEach-Object {
      
        Write-Host "Item Id : " $_["ID"] "Item Title : " $_["Title"] "Item Body : " $_["Body"]
        $Created = $_["Created"]
        $CreatedBy = $_["Author"].Email
        $Modified = $_["Modified"]
        $ModifiedBy = $_["Editor"].Email
        
        Add-PnPPage -Name $_["Title"] -PromoteAs NewsArticle -Publish -HeaderLayoutType NoImage
        Set-PnPPage -Identity $_["Title"] -Title $_["Title"]
        Add-PnPTextPart -Page $_["Title"] -Text $_["Body"]

        Write-Host "Updating metadata!"
        
        $myTitle = $_["Title"].ToString()
        Write-Host "Get page!"
        $page = Get-PnPListItem -List "Site Pages" -Query "<View><Query><Where><Eq><FieldRef Name='Title'/><Value Type='Text'>$myTitle</Value></Eq></Where></Query></View>"
        Write-Host "Set page!"
        Set-PnPListItem -List SitePages -Identity $page.Id -Values @{"Created"=$Created; "Modified"=$Modified; "Editor"=$ModifiedBy; "Author"=$CreatedBy; "FirstPublishedDate"=$Created; "_AuthorByline"=$CreatedBy;} | Out-Null
    }

    Write-Host "Done!" -ForegroundColor Green
}
end
{
    Disconnect-PnPOnline
}

Answer 1

🤔 So I think the problem is that the $_["Title"] hold some text with space, but actually in SharePoint when you create a page with a space in name it will be changed to '-'.

😉 So if you would replace it the $_["Title"] all spaces to '-' it should work as you will pass the proper page name (so the My-page.aspx)

👍 But I think the best solution would be to save the result of the Add-PnPPage method to a variable and then use the property .Name of this variable as the -Identity param you should pass to Set-PnPPage.

👨‍💻 Please see the fallowing code:

> $page = Add-PnPPage -Name "Some New Page"
> Set-PnPPage -Identity $page.Name -Title "changed Title"

🙄 The result of the above should be

and then in SharePoint I have

Hope this will be of any help 😅

BR.