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PowerShell: Create SharePoint List/Library

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Use **Create-SharePointLibrary **function to create a new SharePoint List or Library.

Parameters

  1. $webUrl - Mandatory - SharePoint Web Url - e.g. http://server:port/
  2. $LibraryName - Mandatory - SharePoint Library Name
  3. $Description - Mandatory - SharePoint Library Description
  4. $LibraryTemplate - Mandatory - SharePoint Library Template

Code

function Create-SharePointLibrary {

    [CmdletBinding()]

    Param(

       [Parameter(Mandatory=$true, Position=0, ValueFromPipeline=$true)]

       [string]$webUrl,

       [Parameter(Mandatory=$true, Position=1)]

       [string]$LibraryName,

       [Parameter(Mandatory=$true, Position=2)]

       [string]$Description,

       [Parameter(Mandatory=$false, Position=3)]

       [string]$LibraryTemplate

    )

   Process

   {

      Start-SPAssignment -Global 

      $spWeb = Get-SPWeb -Identity $webUrl    

      $spListCollection = $spWeb.Lists  

      $spLibrary = $spListCollection.TryGetList($LibraryName)

      if($spLibrary -ne $null) {

          Write-Host -f Yellow "Library $LibraryName already exists in the site"

      } else {       

          Write-Host -NoNewLine -f yellow "Creating  Library - $LibraryName"

          $spListCollection.Add($LibraryName, $Description, $LibraryTemplate)

          $spLibrary = $spWeb.GetList($spWeb.ServerRelativeUrl+"/"+"$LibraryName")

          Write-Host -f Green "...Success!"

      }         

      Stop-SPAssignment -Global  

   }

} 

Function Calling

$webUrl = "http://sever:port"

#-----------Document Library------------

$DocLibName = "DocLib1"

$LibraryTemplateDL = [Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListTemplateType]::DocumentLibrary

Create-SharePointLibrary $webUrl  $DocLibName  $DocLibName  $LibraryTemplateDL

# -------Data Connection Library-----------

$DataConnLibName = "DataConnLib1"

$LibraryTemplateDCL = [Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListTemplateType]::DataConnectionLibrary

Create-SharePointLibrary $webUrl  $DataConnLibName  $DataConnLibName $LibraryTemplateDCL

Similarly you can create any type of SharePoint List or Libraries , here are the details of List/Library Templates -

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.splisttemplatetype.aspx

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