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Adding People to the People Web Part Programmatically (using PowerShell maybe?)
There doesn't seem to be any documentation relating to the modern web part components.
I can add a modern web part component to the page like this:
Add-PnPClientSideWebPart -Page $home -DefaultWebPartType People
But I cannot work out how to actually add people to it.
Any thoughts greatfully received (although I don't hold out much hope -- it's very quiet around here).
Hi Darren Parkinson,
I ran Get-PnPProvisioning Template before adding a people web part
Then I added a people web part and then ran Get-PnPProvisioningTemplate again
The difference is :
<pnp:CanvasControl WebPartType="People" JsonControlData="{"layout":1,"persons":[{"id":"i:0#.f|membership|pieter@mytenant.onmicrosoft.com","role":""}]}" ControlId="7f718435-ee4d-431c-bdbf-9c4ff326f46e" Column="1" />On the Add-PnPClientSideWebPart I couldn't find anything to add the data, but you could create a template whcih just includes the above webpart details and then add the web part with Apply-ProvisioningTemplate.
Hi Darren Parkinson,
I ran Get-PnPProvisioning Template before adding a people web part
Then I added a people web part and then ran Get-PnPProvisioningTemplate again
The difference is :
<pnp:CanvasControl WebPartType="People" JsonControlData="{"layout":1,"persons":[{"id":"i:0#.f|membership|pieter@mytenant.onmicrosoft.com","role":""}]}" ControlId="7f718435-ee4d-431c-bdbf-9c4ff326f46e" Column="1" />On the Add-PnPClientSideWebPart I couldn't find anything to add the data, but you could create a template whcih just includes the above webpart details and then add the web part with Apply-ProvisioningTemplate.
Woot! Finally managed it. It's just so frustrating how simple it looks when you finally work it out.
$homePage = Get-PnPClientSidePage -Identity "Home" $peoplePart = $homePage.Controls | ? {$_.Title -eq "People"} $peoplePart.PropertiesJson = '{"layout":1,"persons":[{"id":"i:0#.f|membership|dparkinson@yourtenant.com","role":""}],"title":"Account Team"}' $homePage.Save()Note: this assumes only a single control on the page called "People"; and this also changes the title.
You can actually set the title by just using:
$peoplePart.Title = "My New Title"
$homePage.Save()But the PropertiesJson already includes it.
Thanks Pieter Veenstra your tip was very helpful in pointing the right direction. I always forget about Get-PnPProvisioning for looking at specific items.
Kind regards,
D.
Thanks a lot for this information.
I would like to put 2 variables in this code. I can't find the solution.
Something like this (First time I use Json 🙂 ) :
$userMail = "dparkinson@yourtenant.com" $title = "Account Team" $homePage = Get-PnPClientSidePage -Identity "Home" $peoplePart = $homePage.Controls | ? {$_.Title -eq "People"} $peoplePart.PropertiesJson = '{"layout":1,"persons":[{"id":"i:0#.f|membership|$userMail","role":""}],"title":$title}' $homePage.Save()I tried this but it doesn't work :
$user = "dparkinson@yourtenant.com" $title = "Account Team" $homePage = Get-PnPClientSidePage -Identity "$PageName" $peoplePart = $homePage.Controls | ? {$_.Title -eq "People"} $peoplePart.PropertiesJson = '{{"layout":1,"persons":[{"id":"i:0#.f|membership|{0}","role":""}],"title":"{1}"}}' -f $user,$titleAny idea ?
Interesting that it's only adding the JsonControlData field which is what I've be trying to do via PowerShell. I'll give it another go with that before giving up.
