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.

1. Use Explorer View
2. Use SharePoint Designer
3. Using PowerShell to Change the URL of a SharePoint List or Library

Using Explorer View to rename SharePoint list URL:

Open the site in Explorer view, Rename the List/Library as you rename it in your local Windows machine’s explorer view! This renames the 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")