Xtykutl

I am using SharePoint online.

I want to use this CSOM code to add a WebPart to a page:

SP.File oFile = _web.GetFileByUrl(SiteUrl + "/SitePages/" + pageName);

oFile.CheckOut();

LimitedWebPartManager limitedWebPartManager = oFile.GetLimitedWebPartManager(PersonalizationScope.Shared);

var importedWebPart = limitedWebPartManager.ImportWebPart(webPartSchemaXml);

var webPart = limitedWebPartManager.AddWebPart(importedWebPart.WebPart, zoneid, zoneIndex);

oFile.Update();

await SiteCtx.ExecuteQueryAsync();

oFile.CheckIn(String.Empty, CheckinType.MinorCheckIn);

The problem is how to assign correct values to the zoneid string variable,
which is the name of the Web Part zone to which to add the Web Part.

When I run this code nothing happens!

(it doesn't add the WebPart to the page and I am suspecting it is related to the wrong zoneId).

I have read various post, ranging from accessing the code behind of the .aspx page trying to find the WebPartZone, accessing the WebPartManager class (which should list the ZoneId's but I don't know how to get it, since that I am using the LimitedWebPartManager class).

I have tried various values for zoneId, but at the moment none of them work:

• Zone 1 (just a guess!)


• Zone 2 (i see it in the right tab when manually editing the webpart through Edit page)


• 
  Body (with this the code worked some days ago! but now it doesn't anymore)


• Header


• Left


• Bottom

What is the proper method of findind zoneId's?

EDIT

The page is the homepage, I have read somewhere that it is a wiki page so maybe it has different ZoneId's.

ZoneIDs might be different depending on the page layout, but usually out-of-the-box SharePoint layouts use the following ID's for webpart zones:

• TitleBar


• Header


• LeftColumn


• MiddleColumn


• RightColumn


• Footer

Make sure that you invoke the update() method on your file object and executeQueryAsync() method on your context after importing the webpart - the latter function especially is responsible for sending the request to server and applying your changes.

Here's a nice article about adding webparts to pages programatically: How to programmatically add a ClientSide Web Part to a SharePoint page