How to Change URL of the SharePoint List or Library?
Another interesting question, How to change the URL of the existing List or Library in SharePoint? End-user named a document library as "2011 Goals & Results" and in URL it came as "2011%20Goals%20%20Results", Now they made a request to special characters in the URL.
Unfortunately, there is no direct way/interface from SharePoint to do that. However these tricks will help you! thought of Sharing..
Open the site in Explorer view, Rename the List/Library as you rename in your local windows machine's explorer view! This renames list web address also.
Using SharePoint Designer to Rename list url:
Open the site with SharePoint Designer, All Files, Right click the Library, and choose "Rename"
Nice trick, Isn't it? :-)
PowerShell script to rename SharePoint List URL :
Unfortunately, there is no direct way/interface from SharePoint to do that. However these tricks will help you! thought of Sharing..
- Use Explorer View
- Use SharePoint Designer
- Using PowerShell to Change the URL of a SharePoint List or Library
Open the site in Explorer view, Rename the List/Library as you rename in your local windows machine's explorer view! This renames list web address also.
Using SharePoint Designer to Rename list url:
Open the site with SharePoint Designer, All Files, Right click the Library, and choose "Rename"
Nice trick, Isn't it? :-)
PowerShell script to rename SharePoint List URL :
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue #Web URL where the target list lives $WebURL = "http://sharepoint.crescent.com/" #List Name $ListName = "ExternalProjects" #Get the Web List and Library objects $web = Get-SPWeb $WebURL $List = $web.Lists[$ListName] #Change the URL from "ExternalProjects" to "Projects" $List.RootFolder.MoveTo("Projects")
COOL.. the explorer view is superb.. Thanks a lot dude.
ReplyDeleteOnly place I found this information, thanks!
ReplyDeleteUsed the SharePoint Designer and it updated all other links to that list (thus no broken links). Excellent tip! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteYou forgot to call $List.Update() after the last line in the powershell-solution. The change will not be processed completely without "$List.Update()", and the url to the list will fail (pointing to old/wrong url while listname is internally changed).
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