I have to recreate the same List in several subsites within a site collection. I saved my List as a template but it will be very time consuming to add the List manually to all of my subsites using the SharePoint GUI. Can anyone point me to a good article or provide a sample of how to do this using PowerShell?
Thanks in advance, Jovi
Provided you have added list as a stp file in List template gallery:
$site = Get-SPSite http://site
foreach($web in $site.AllWebs) {
$listTemplates = $site.GetCustomListTemplates($web)
$web.Lists.Add("Your name for list", "", $listTemplates["Your List template name"])
}
Remember, you can't pass the template ID in the Add method but you can easily query on template IDs using PowerShell:'
$web = Get-SPWeb "http://serverUrl"
$template = $web.ListTemplates | Where-Object {$_.Type -eq 10100}
# Now add the list using the retrieved template object...
Here is an example of creating a list: Create a list with powershell
Then this script will loop through each site in the site collection
$siteURL = "http://sp14fdev01/"
$site = Get-SPSite($siteURL)
foreach($web in $site.AllWebs) {
}
Simply add your list creation code inside the foreach. Note you will want to check to make sure the list doesn't already exist.
