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SharePoint Online: Get All Items from a List View using PowerShell

Salaudeen Rajack 3 Comments

Requirement: Get All Items from a SharePoint Online List View in PowerShell.

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PowerShell to Get List Items from a View in SharePoint Online: 

In SharePoint Online, you can use PowerShell to get a list of items from a view. This can be useful if you want to automate tasks that are based on the data in a view. This article will show you how to use the CAML query and PowerShell script to get a list of items from a view. 

#Load SharePoint CSOM Assemblies
Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll"
Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll"

#Config Variables
$SiteURL="https://crescent.sharepoint.com/sites/pmo"
$ListName="Projects"
$ViewName="Active Projects"

Try {
    $Cred= Get-Credential
    $Credentials = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($Cred.Username, $Cred.Password)
 
    #Setup the context
    $Ctx = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($SiteURL)
    $Ctx.Credentials = $Credentials

    #Get the View
    $List = $Ctx.web.Lists.GetByTitle($ListName)
    $View = $List.Views.GetByTitle($ViewName)
    $Ctx.Load($View)
    $Ctx.ExecuteQuery()
 
    #Get all list items from the view
    $CAMLQuery = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.CamlQuery
    $CAMLQuery.ViewXml = $View.ListViewXml
    $ListItems = $List.GetItems($CAMLQuery)
    $Ctx.Load($ListItems)
    $Ctx.ExecuteQuery()

    #Iterate throgh each item: 
    #ForEach($Item in $ListItems) { Write-host $Item[ColumnName]}
     
    Write-host "Total List Items Found in the Given View: $($ListItems.Count)" -ForegroundColor Green  
}
Catch {
    write-host -f Red "Error Getting List Items from the List View!" $_.Exception.Message
}

This can be useful if you need to export data from a view or if you need to troubleshoot issues with the view. But there is a problem! If your view is paged and configured to display items in batches, the above script gets you only items from the 1st page! So, here is the fix:

#Config Variables
$SiteURL="https://crescentintranet.sharepoint.com/sites/PMO"
$ListName="Projects"
$ViewName="Active Projects"
 
Try {
    $Cred= Get-Credential
    $Credentials = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($Cred.Username, $Cred.Password)
  
    #Setup the context
    $Ctx = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($SiteURL)
    $Ctx.Credentials = $Credentials
 
    #Get the View
    $List = $Ctx.web.Lists.GetByTitle($ListName)
    $View = $List.Views.GetByTitle($ViewName)
    $Ctx.Load($View)
    $Ctx.ExecuteQuery()

    #Get the View Query
    $View.Retrieve("ViewQuery")
    $Ctx.ExecuteQuery()

    #Get all list items from the view
    $Query = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.CamlQuery
    $Query.ViewXml = "<View Scope='RecursiveAll'><Query>$($View.ViewQuery)</Query></View>"

    $ListItems = $List.GetItems($Query)
    $Ctx.Load($ListItems)
    $Ctx.ExecuteQuery()

    Write-host "Total List Items Found in the Given View: $($ListItems.Count)" -ForegroundColor Green   
    #Loop through each List item
    ForEach($Item in $ListItems)
    {
        Write-host $Item.Id  #$Item["Title"]
    }
}
Catch {
    write-host -f Red "Error Getting List Items from the List View!" $_.Exception.Message
}

PnP PowerShell to Get Items from a List View

Here is how to get all items from a SharePoint list view using PnP PowerShell:

#Parameters
$SiteURL="https://crescent.sharepoint.com/sites/PMO"
$ListName="Projects"
$ViewName= "Active Projects"

#Connect to the Site        
Connect-PnPOnline -Url $SiteURL -Interactive

#Get the List
$List =  Get-PnPList -Identity $ListName

#Get the List View from the list
$ListView  = Get-PnPView -List $ListName -Identity $ViewName -Includes ListViewXml

#Get List Items from the view
Get-PnPListItem -List $ListName -Query $ListView.ListViewXml
SharePoint Online: Get All Fields from a List View using PowerShell

Salaudeen Rajack

Salaudeen Rajack is a SharePoint Architect with Two decades of SharePoint Experience. He loves sharing his knowledge and experiences with the SharePoint community, through his real-world articles!

3 thoughts on “SharePoint Online: Get All Items from a List View using PowerShell”

  • I have to make a change for it to work for me as with above code it was giving me all items instead of just view items.

    $Query.ViewXml = $View.ListViewXml instead of $Query.ViewXml = $View.ViewQuery
    then I have looped thru the items.

    Thanks for the direction.

    Reply

    • Thanks, that was very helpful as I had the same issue with ViewQuery. However, I am encountering a problem whereby I am only returning the first 30 items for the view, as it is 30 items per page, and I require all of them (150+). Is there a way to bypass the rowlimit? What would I have to amend to the code?

      Reply

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