Find Who has Created / Modified a SharePoint View
Ever wondered how to find the user who has created or modified a particular SharePoint view? and when it was created/modified? Well, There is no SharePoint UI to get these information! But using SharePoint object model, we can retrieve these data programmatically from SPFile object’s properties.
Here is how I retrieved “Created By”, “Created On”, “Modified By”, “Modified On” values using PowerShell:
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
#Set these two variables accordingly
$WebURL = "http://sharepoint.crescent.com/"
$ViewURL = "http://sharepoint.crescent.com/LegalDoc/AuthorView.aspx"
#Get the Web
$web = Get-SPWeb $WebURL
#Get the View File
$ViewFile = $web.GetFile($viewURL)
Write-Host "Created By: " $ViewFile.Author
Write-Host "Created on: " $ViewFile.TimeCreated
Write-Host "Modified By: " $ViewFile.ModifiedBy
Write-Host "Modified On: " $ViewFile.TimeLastModified
