How to reproduce in OH3:
Setup Page, Items, +, Add Item, Name=test, Type=Number
You can see in the Items-list the item has now the value NULL
Create a rule to update the item by test.postUpdate(10)
You can see in the Items-list the item has changed to the value 10
Add this item to a sitemap Text item=test
The item name is showed in the sitemap, but not the value