{"id":2807,"date":"2020-01-31T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itidea.nl\/?p=2807"},"modified":"2020-02-06T15:02:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T14:02:29","slug":"pnp-powershell-format-default-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itidea.nl\/index.php\/pnp-powershell-format-default-error\/","title":{"rendered":"PnP PowerShell Format-default error"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was a while ago when I saw the error<\/p>\n\n\n\n

format-default : The collection has not been initialized. It has not been requested or the request has not been executed. It may need to be explicitly requested.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I came to my attention again when a script was created which created multiple webs using New-PNPWeb, applied a provisioning template using Apply-PNPProvisioningTemplate, added some fields, lists, views and listitems with their corresponding PnP PowerShell cmdlets.
Sometimes the error ‘format-default’ occurs running the script, but not always and not always at the same line of code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PowerShell’s default behaviour is to output the returned value to the console.
So when running a cmdlet like Add-PnPListItem the returned value is visible in the console.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Probably some PnP cmdlets output an object where one of the properties has not been loaded by CSOM. By assigning the output to a variable the error message is kind of suppressed and the resulting object is stored in the variable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$fix = Add-PnPView ...<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
When you output the\nvariable to the console the error message will be shown again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
When you experience\nthe error ‘format-default\u2026’ provisioning a site with PnP PowerShell the\nsolution is to always store the return value in a variable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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