[BUG] Remove sections of the page not working

[Employee87]

Reporting an Issue or Missing Feature

Issue

Expected behavior

It removes the sections of the page.

Actual behavior

Sections of the page still persists. No error thrown. I tried a test where the Home page has 2 sections. And it prints out 1 and then 0.

Steps to reproduce behavior

Connect-PnPOnline -Url "https://mysite.sharepoint.com/sites/TestSite" -Interactive
 $pg = Get-PnPPage -Identity "Home"
 $sectionsCount = $pg.Sections.Count
 for($i=$sectionsCount-1; $i -ge 0; $i--) {
     write-host $i
     $pg.Sections.RemoveAt($i)
 }
 $pg.Save()
 $page = Set-PnPPage -Identity $pg -Publish
 Disconnect-PnPOnline

What is the version of the Cmdlet module you are running?

Manifest 1.7.0 PnP.PowerShell

Which operating system/environment are you running PnP PowerShell on?

• [X ] Windows
• Linux
• MacOS
• Azure Cloud Shell
• Azure Functions
• Other : please specify

[gautamdsheth]

You need to save the page as well after removing the sections:

$pg = Get-PnPPage -Identity "Home" $sectionsCount = $pg.Sections.Count for($i=$sectionsCount-1; $i -ge 0; $i--) { write-host $i $pg.Sections.RemoveAt($i) } $pg.Save()

Only after that will the page be actually saved. Can you try this and let us know ?

[Employee87]

Tried it, no errors, but also no changes on the page :( Sections still remain. I also did the publish code after the Save() too.

[Arturiby]

The issue isn't fixed yet (1.8.0 version). I can confirm that Sections can not be removed.

There is an issue in the class PnP.Core.Model.SharePoint.Page

        ......
        private readonly List<CanvasSection> sections = new List<CanvasSection>(1);
        public List<ICanvasSection> Sections
        {
            get
            {
                return sections.Cast<ICanvasSection>().ToList();
            }
        }
        ......

The Sections property returns a copy (new reference) of private variable sections . The code $pg.Sections.RemoveAt($i) doesn't actually remove Section object from private variable sections.

Also this issue affects ConvertTo-PnPPage command. The parameter RemoveEmptySectionsAndColumns does nothing.

cc @jansenbe

[jansenbe]

@Arturiby: thanks for notifying me of this issue. I've fixed this and the next nightly PowerShell version will have it included.

FYI @Employee87 / @gautamdsheth