Mavention Make multiple site nodes

Appling multiple templates sequential after each other using site XML nodes in a Mavention Make template,  allows you to provision more complex structures. 

When to use multiple site XML nodes?

• Control the timing when the SharePoint objects are created, like by adding a document template to a content type.

Considerations:

• You cannot mix PnP templates in a Mavention Make template;
• Besides the use of multiple site XML nodes, you could also define a playlist. The main difference between these approches is, that with a playlist you can define different templates like mixing Make template(s) with a PnP template.

Example

In the example below we have defined two ‘Site’ XML nodes, where you can separate and/or control the timing when the SharePoint objects are created.
Note that in the second ‘Site’ XML node we defined a ObjectAction=”None”. What this does is that the Mavention Make engine does only get the SharePoint object but does not change anything.

<Configurator xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.mavention.com/SharePoint/Apps/SiteConfigurator">
   <Providers>
      <Provider NodeName="Site" Class="Mavention.SharePoint.SiteConfigurator.Providers.SiteProvider" Assembly="Mavention.SharePoint.SiteConfigurator, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=a43c589e76ba4e3d"/>
   </Providers>
   <Site Url="{url}" Title="{title}" OwnerLogin="{siteowner}" Template="STS#0" LCID="1043" StorageQuota="1024" TimeZoneId="4">
      <RootWeb LCID="1043" Title="{title}" Url="{url}" Description="{description}">
         <Properties>
            <Property Name="WebTemplate">My First Mavention Make Site</Property>
            <Property Name="WebTemplateVersion">0.0.0.1</Property>
         </Properties>
      </RootWeb>
   </Site>
   <Site Url="{url}" Title="{title}" OwnerLogin="{siteowner}" Template="STS#0" LCID="1043" StorageQuota="1024" TimeZoneId="4" ObjectAction="None">
      <RootWeb LCID="1043" Title="{title}" Url="{url}" Description="{description}">
         <!-- Do more stuff -->
      </RootWeb>
   </Site>
</Configurator>

Parameters

{
 "d": {
 "parameters": [{
 "id": "url",
 "title": "Site URL",
 "inputType": "text",
 "required": true,
 "sampleValue": "https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/sitecollectie"
 }, {
 "id": "title",
 "title": "Title",
 "inputType": "text",
 "required": true,
 "sampleValue": "My Team"
 }, {
 "id": "description",
 "title": "Description",
 "inputType": "multiline",
 "required": false,
 "sampleValue": "Site for My Team"
 }, {
 "id": "siteowner",
 "title": "Siteowner",
 "inputType": "text",
 "required": false,
 "sampleValue": "site-owner@tenant.onmicrosoft.com"
 }]
 }
}

Example: Add document template to a content type

In this example we want to add a document template to a content type in SharePoint. This requires that the document already exists before you can add it to the Content Type. Therefor we use multiple ‘Site’ XML nodes in a Mavention Make Template, to ensure that the necessary SharePoint objects are available.

<Configurator xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.mavention.com/SharePoint/Apps/SiteConfigurator">
   <Providers>
      <Provider NodeName="Site" Class="Mavention.SharePoint.SiteConfigurator.Providers.SiteProvider" Assembly="Mavention.SharePoint.SiteConfigurator, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=a43c589e76ba4e3d"/>
   </Providers>
   <Site Url="{url}" Title="{title}" OwnerLogin="{siteowner}" Template="STS#0" LCID="1043" StorageQuota="1024" TimeZoneId="4">
      <RootWeb LCID="1043" Title="{title}" Url="{url}" Description="{description}">
         <Properties>
            <Property Name="WebTemplate">Make template word template</Property>
            <Property Name="WebTemplateVersion">0.0.0.1</Property>
         </Properties>
         <Fields>
            <Field Name="MVNamePerson" DisplayName="Name person" Id="550a7eec-4994-4675-8cd9-0b77699a9840">
               <![CDATA[<Field Type="Text" DisplayName="Name person" Required="FALSE" EnforceUniqueValues="FALSE" Indexed="FALSE" MaxLength="255" Group="Mavention" ID="{550a7eec-4994-4675-8cd9-0b77699a9840}" StaticName="MVNamePerson" Name="MVNamePerson"></Field>]]></Field>
            <Field Name="MVEnlistment" DisplayName="Enlistment" Id="49504f7c-ca28-44f6-8e89-428129f4d073">
               <![CDATA[<Field Type="DateTime" DisplayName="Enlistment" Required="FALSE" EnforceUniqueValues="FALSE" Indexed="FALSE" Format="DateOnly" Group="Mavention" FriendlyDisplayFormat="Disabled" ID="{49504f7c-ca28-44f6-8e89-428129f4d073}" StaticName="MVEnlistment" Name="MVEnlistment"></Field>]]></Field>
            <Field Name="MVLocation" DisplayName="Location" Id="de823fb6-3617-4586-88bd-ede92ff41450">
               <![CDATA[<Field Type="Text" DisplayName="Location" Required="FALSE" EnforceUniqueValues="FALSE" Indexed="FALSE" MaxLength="255" Group="Mavention" ID="{de823fb6-3617-4586-88bd-ede92ff41450}" StaticName="MVLocation" Name="MVLocation"></Field>]]></Field>
         </Fields>
         <ContentTypes>
            <ContentType Title="Contract" Description="" Group="Mavention" Id="0x01010017A0BE4284A7284791DB1C3DE9D040E6">
               <FieldRefs>
                  <FieldRef Id="550a7eec-4994-4675-8cd9-0b77699a9840" Name="MVNamePerson" />
                  <FieldRef Id="49504f7c-ca28-44f6-8e89-428129f4d073" Name="MVEnlistment" />
                  <FieldRef Id="de823fb6-3617-4586-88bd-ede92ff41450" Name="MVLocation" />
               </FieldRefs>
            </ContentType>
         </ContentTypes>
         <Lists>
            <List Url="Contracten" TemplateType="101" TemplateFeatureId="00bfea71-e717-4e80-aa17-d0c71b360101" HasUniqueRoleAssignments="true" CopyRoleAssignments="false" ContentTypesEnabled="True" Title="Contracten" ExcludeFromOfflineClient="False" EnableVersioning="true">
               <ContentTypes>
                  <ContentType Title="Contract" Description="" Group="Mavention" ParentContentTypeId="0x01010017A0BE4284A7284791DB1C3DE9D040E6" />
                  <ContentType GetObjectBy="DisplayName" Title="Document" ObjectAction="Delete"/>
               </ContentTypes>
               <Views>
                  <View Aggregations="" AggregationsStatus="Off" DefaultView="True" DefaultViewForContentType="False" Hidden="False" IncludeRootFolder="False" JSLink="clienttemplates.js" Paged="True" RowLimit="30" Scope="DefaultValue" Title="Alle documenten" Toolbar="" ViewType="HTML">
                     <ViewData />
                     <ViewFields>
                        <FieldRef Name="DocIcon" />
                        <FieldRef Name="LinkFilename" />
                        <FieldRef Name="Modified" />
                        <FieldRef Name="Editor" />
                        <FieldRef Name="MVNamePerson" />
                        <FieldRef Name="MVEnlistment" />
                        <FieldRef Name="MVLocation" />
                     </ViewFields>
                     <ViewQuery>&lt;OrderBy&gt;&lt;FieldRef Name="FileLeafRef" /&gt;&lt;/OrderBy&gt;</ViewQuery>
                  </View>
               </Views>
            </List>
         </Lists>
      </RootWeb>
   </Site>

   <!--Upload Wordtemplate-->
   <Site Url="{url}" Title="{title}" OwnerLogin="{siteowner}" Template="STS#0" LCID="1043" StorageQuota="1024" TimeZoneId="4" ObjectAction="None">
      <RootWeb LCID="1043" Title="{title}" Url="{url}" Description="{description}">
         <Folders>
            <Folder Name="_cts">
               <Folders>
                  <Folder Name="Contract">
                     <Files>
                        <File Name="Contract.docx" FileSource="assets/Contract.docx" Overwrite="true"/>
                     </Files>
                  </Folder>
               </Folders>
            </Folder>
         </Folders>
      </RootWeb>
   </Site>

   <!--Update Contenttype-->
   <Site Url="{url}" Title="{title}" OwnerLogin="{siteowner}" Template="STS#0" LCID="1043" StorageQuota="1024" TimeZoneId="4" ObjectAction="None">
      <RootWeb LCID="1043" Title="{title}" Url="{url}" Description="{description}">
         <ContentTypes>
            <ContentType Title="Contract" Description="" Group="Mavention" Id="0x01010017A0BE4284A7284791DB1C3DE9D040E6" DocumentTemplate="Contract.docx"/>
         </ContentTypes>
      </RootWeb>
   </Site>
</Configurator>

Parameters

{
   "d": {
      "parameters": [{
         "id": "url",
         "title": "Site URL",
         "inputType": "text",
         "required": true,
         "sampleValue": "https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/sitecollectie"
      }, {
         "id": "title",
         "title": "Title",
         "inputType": "text",
         "required": true,
         "sampleValue": "My Team"
      }, {
         "id": "description",
         "title": "Description",
         "inputType": "multiline",
         "required": false,
         "sampleValue": "Site for My Team"
      }, {
         "id": "siteowner",
         "title": "Siteowner",
         "inputType": "text",
         "required": false,
         "sampleValue": "site-owner@tenant.onmicrosoft.com"
      }]
   }
}

Related articles

• Getting started with Mavention Make
• Creating sub-sites using Mavention Make
• PnP Template Example
• Mavention Make playlist

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