How to Create WebPart Page Programmatically in Community Site Templates in SharePoint Office 365 using C# Client Side Object Model (CSOM)

Sathish Nadarajan
 
Solution Architect
September 5, 2016
 
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In the earlier article, we saw how to create the Wikipage. In the same manner, if we look at the Site, there are one more Page, we can create in a Community Site Template. That is nothing but a WebPart Page.

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Let us see how to create a WebPart Page Programmatically in a Community Site Template in SharePoint Online using C#.

Please find the Snippet, which is very straight forward and does not require any explanation.

 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Text;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
 
 using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;
 using System.Security;
 using Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.TenantAdministration;
 using OfficeDevPnP.Core;
 
 namespace Console.Office365
 {
     class Program
     {
         static void Main(string[] args)
         {
             CreateWebPartPage();
         }
 
 
         public static void CreateWebPartPage()
         {
             OfficeDevPnP.Core.AuthenticationManager authMgr = new OfficeDevPnP.Core.AuthenticationManager();
 
             string siteUrl = "https://******.sharepoint.com/sites/CommunitySite";
             string userName = "sathish@******.onmicrosoft.com";
             string password = "******";
 
             using (var ctx = authMgr.GetSharePointOnlineAuthenticatedContextTenant(siteUrl, userName, password))
             {
                 Web web = ctx.Web;
                 ctx.Load(web);
                 ctx.ExecuteQueryRetry();
 
                 List sitePagesList = web.Lists.GetByTitle("Site Pages");
 
                 ctx.Load(sitePagesList);
                 ctx.Load(sitePagesList.RootFolder);
                 ctx.ExecuteQueryRetry();
 
                 var pageTitle = "webpartpage.aspx";
                 sitePagesList.RootFolder.Files.AddTemplateFile(sitePagesList.RootFolder.ServerRelativeUrl + "/" + pageTitle, TemplateFileType.StandardPage);
                 
                 ctx.ExecuteQueryRetry();
             }
         }
     }
     
 }
 
 

After Executing the Code, the page will look like below.

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Happy Coding,

Sathish Nadarajan.

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Sathish Nadarajan
 
Solution Architect
 
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Sathish is a Microsoft MVP for SharePoint (Office Servers and Services) having 15+ years of experience in Microsoft Technologies. He holds a Masters Degree in Computer Aided Design and Business ...read more
 

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