{"id":820,"date":"2014-07-02T14:50:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T14:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myfatblog.co.uk\/?p=820"},"modified":"2015-04-24T14:38:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T14:38:33","slug":"bug-save-site-template-sharepoint-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.myfatblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/07\/bug-save-site-template-sharepoint-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Bug with Save Site as a Template in SharePoint Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve hit a peculiar bug in SharePoint Online today when trying to “Save site as a template”. In this particular scenario we’re using composed looks to apply basic branding to SPO for a client. As composed looks can’t be inherited and we’re not looking to use code for provisioning, we decided to use site templates for each site collection.<\/p>\n

We’re also using the Content Type Hub to push out a single document content type with the Enterprise keywords site column attached to it. To create the template, we’ve followed the process below:-<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Create content type in CTHub<\/li>\n
  2. Add existing site column “Enterprise Keywords” to the content type.<\/li>\n
  3. Browse to the main site collection and confirm content type deployment.<\/li>\n
  4. Create new sub-site using the team site template.<\/li>\n
  5. Customise and brand the template site<\/li>\n
  6. Select “Save site as a template” in site settings<\/li>\n
  7. Give it the relevant name\/title, do NOT select “Include Content”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    At this point, the save kicks off, but then throws a SharePoint error<\/p>\n

    \"clip_image001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

    If you browse to the solutions gallery in the site collection, you’ll find that the template has been saved as a new WSP, however the solution has not activated. If you try and manually activate, you’ll hit another SharePoint error.<\/p>\n

    When I was testing this earlier in the day I was actually receiving more detail on the error, with wording along the lines of:-<\/p>\n

    The validation of featuredefinition with id 16cfcf04-5543-4846-8b84-2ea93791ff5b has failed, file Phtest\\ListInstances\\ElementsContentType.xml, line 2029, token 118: The ‘AllowDeletion’ attribute is not declared<\/p>\n

    So, for some reason our WSP is failing feature validation, Looking into the Elements file specified, we can indeed see that our content type has the site column with the AllowDeletion=”True” value added.<\/p>\n

    \"clip_image002\"<\/a><\/p>\n

    Several others have been seeing this issue, including Renso Jacobs who helpfully pointed out on the MSDN forum post<\/a> that is following this, that the FieldTypes reference document<\/a> doesn’t show this AllowDeletion attribute in the FieldRef schema.<\/p>\n

    Removing this particular field from the content type is a quick and dirty workaround, it allows me to save the site as a template, and as I’m using the CTHub I can quickly redeploy the content types. However as soon as I do, the problem returns!<\/p>\n

    Now at the moment, I don’t have any content in this site as it’s a greenfield site, but the minute I do, removing a field from the content type is not an option as I’ll end up losing metadata.<\/p>\n

    I’ve confirmed that the issue currently affects builds 16.0.0.1205, 16.0.0.1210, 16.0.0.1216 and if I find any more I’ll let you all know and update the MSDN post. The issue is currently with Microsoft for investigation.<\/p>\n

    [important]UPDATE July 9th – This issue was accepted as a bug and escalated to the product team.[\/important]<\/p>\n

    [important]UPDATE,\u00a0the MSDN post has been updated to state that a hotfix has been globally rolled out across all tenancies. I ‘ve just tested and this is working now across all of my tenancies that were affected.[\/important]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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