SharePoint Online: PowerShell to Change Page Layout

Single part app pages provide the capability to host SharePoint Framework web parts or Teams applications in SharePoint Online with a locked layout. 

Pros:

• Single Part App Pages cannot be edited by end-users using a browser
• It will take the entire width & Header banner area

Cons:

• Currently supports hosting only a single web part or Microsoft Teams application
• Developers can change page layout programmatically from normal page layout to a Single Page App Page

To deploy the Single Web Part App Page in your tenant follow the next steps:

Install PowerShell Gallery
Open PowerShell as Administrator & run the following command

Install-Module -Name SharePointPnPPowerShellOnline

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Update Page Template
Change the "About-Us.aspx" to the name of the page you want to update

	$SiteURL = ## Your SharePoint site Url ##
	Connect-PnPOnline -Url $SiteURL
	$item = Get-PnPListItem -List "Site Pages" -Query "<View><Query><Where><Eq><FieldRef Name='FileLeafRef' /><Value Type='Text'>About-Us.aspx</Value></Eq></Where></Query></View>"
	## Convert the page layout type to SingleWebPartPage
	$item["PageLayoutType"] = "SingleWebPartAppPage"
	## Revert the page layout type to Article
	## $item["PageLayoutType"] = "Article"
	$item.Update()
	Invoke-PnPQuery

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Happy Coding...