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I have a classic page in SharePoint Online. It's a standard homepage from a teamsite in a classic web and I want to add a list webpart to it.

When the web is created, the Home.aspx has three webparts, a Promoted Links webpart ("Get started with your site"), a Documents webpart and a Newsfeed webpart. This is all standard.

I need to remove the Promoted Links webpart and the Documents and run this:

# Remove the Promoted Links webpart:
$wpId = (Get-PnPWebPart -ServerRelativePageUrl "$relLeafURL/SitePages/Home.aspx" -Connection $conn | Where-Object {$_.Webpart.Title -eq "Get started with your site" }).Id
Remove-PnPWebPart -ServerRelativePageUrl "$relLeafURL/SitePages/Home.aspx" -Identity $wpId -Connection $conn

# Remove the Documents webpart:
$wpId = (Get-PnPWebPart -ServerRelativePageUrl "$relLeafURL/SitePages/Home.aspx" -Connection $conn | Where-Object {$_.Webpart.Title -eq "Documents"}).Id
Remove-PnPWebPart -ServerRelativePageUrl "$relLeafURL/SitePages/Home.aspx" -Identity $wpId -Connection $conn

The two webparts are gone from Home.aspx, only the Newsfeed remains. Excellent.

Now I need to add a custom list webpart called Contacts. I get the XML from the AllItems view and add it to the page:

# Add webpart Contacts:
$webPartXml = Get-PnPWebPartXml -Identity Contacts -ServerRelativePageUrl "$relLeafURL/Lists/Contacts/AllItems.aspx" -Connection $conn
Add-PnPWebPartToWebPartPage -ServerRelativePageUrl "$relLeafURL/SitePages/Home.aspx" -XML $webPartXml -ZoneId "WPZ" -ZoneIndex 2 -Connection $conn

The webpart is indeed added to the page, but when I edit the page it's not there. Only the Newsfeed webpart which was created by default shows up. This means that I can't change any settings for the webpart, since it doesn't show in edit mode.

The webpart is listed if I run Get-PnPWebPart and also shows when I add ?contents=1 to the URL. Just not when I edit the page.

I think for some reason my webpart doesn't end up in a webpart zone, but I can't figure out how to do this. Can anyone please help?

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Try adding the list web part this way.

1.Create the Web Part XML:

  • Use the following template for a .dwp file:

    <webParts> <webPart xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2"> <metaData> <type name="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.ListViewWebPart, Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" /> <importErrorMessage>Cannot import this Web Part.</importErrorMessage> </metaData> <data> <properties> <property name="ListName" type="string">{list-guid}</property> <property name="Title" type="string">Your List Title</property> </properties> </data> </webPart> </webParts>

  • Replace {list-guid} with the actual GUID of your list. You can get the GUID by navigating to the list settings and copying it from the URL.

2.Save the XML as a .dwp File:

  • Save the above XML content to a file with a .dwp extension, for example, C:\path\to\your\webpart.dwp.

3.Add the Web Part to the Page:

  • Use the Add-PnPWebPartToWebPartPage cmdlet to add the web part to your page:

    $page = "YourPage.aspx" $dwpPath = "C:\\path\\to\\your\\webpart.dwp" Add-PnPWebPartToWebPartPage -ServerRelativePageUrl "/sites/yoursite/SitePages/$page" -Path $dwpPath -ZoneId "Main" -ZoneIndex 1

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