Cannot reference Site Collection columns on when running a Site Design on a Subsite

[Mlavieri]

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Expected or Desired Behavior

When applying a Site Design on a subsite any columns available to the site should be able to be used in a Site Design.

Observed Behavior

When applying a Site Design to a sub site that creates a content type with a reference to a Site Column the design will fail with an error that "One or more of the properties on this action has an invalid type." Additionally if this script also creates a column a duplicate column will be created at the subsite level.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a Site Design that creates a column and a content type such as the following

{
"$schema": "schema.json",
"actions": [
{
"verb": "createSiteColumn",
"fieldType": "Text",
"internalName": "mattsColumn",
"displayName": "Matt's Column",
"isRequired": false,
"group": "A"
},
{
"verb": "createContentType",
"name": "Matt's CT",
"parentName": "Item",
"hidden": false,
"subactions": [
{
"verb": "addSiteColumn",
"internalName": "mattsColumn"
}
]
}
]
}

2. Apply the Site Design to a Site
3. Create a subsite under the site the design was applied to in step 2.
   4a. Run the Site Design on the Subsite
   4b. Alternatively create a new Site Design that only creates a content type referencing the parent column

{
"$schema": "schema.json",
"actions": [
{
"verb": "createContentType",
"name": "Matt's Sub CT",
"parentName": "Item",
"hidden": false,
"subactions": [
{
"verb": "addSiteColumn",
"internalName": "mattsColumn"
}
]
}
]
}

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[adamtobia5]

Also experiencing this bug/issue. Didn't know that it was because of applying the site design to a Subsite. Will watch this issue for further developments.

[CodingSinceThe80s]

Hello all, just to bump up this issue a little bit: Its still there and honestly very annoying. Also the site script documentation explicitly says that this should be possible: See this link under addSiteColumn.

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