José Quinto
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Office 365. PnP Provisioning – Hide default Title column and Enable menu for Other Custom Text Column
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Introduction

Playing with PnP Provisioning is funny as you have different set of features and requirements you can achieve when provisioning sites.

Last month I found sort of bug at version v2.4.1605 of PnP Core: Can not Convert Object when provisioning pnp:file Display Template.

Working with the same version I had a requirement to provision a Content Type that inherits of Item but we MUST hide OOTB Title column and provision List Instance, bind the Content Type to the new List and enable contextual menu on the Custom_Title field.

If it is the first time you use the PnP Provisioning, please highly recommends you look into this GitHub page (where MS publish the PnP Core solution).

Using PnP Provisioning:

I will quick remind a step by step to start using PnP Provisioning:

  1. Create Console Application to invoke PnP Core classes.

  2. Add Packages needed using Package Manager Console. Here is how my packages.config looks like: