SharePoint Online: Update Content Type using PowerShell
Requirement: Update content type settings in SharePoint Online using PowerShell
How to Update Content Type Settings in SharePoint Online?
If you administer a SharePoint Online site, you may need to update the content type settings from time to time. In this article, we’ll show you how to update your content type settings such as content type name, description, and Group using the web browser interface and through PowerShell.
To edit content type’s general settings such as name, description, and group information, follow these steps:
- Navigate to the SharePoint Online site where the content type was created.
- Click on Settings >> Site Settings
- On the Site Settings page, click on the “Site Content Types” link under the “Web Designer Galleries” section.
- On the Site Content Types page, click the name of the content type to be edited.
- Click on the “Name, Description, and Group” link in the Settings section.
- On the Content Type Settings page, You can update the Name, Description, and Group information as necessary.
- Click OK button to save your changes.
SharePoint Online: Update Content Type using PowerShell
Let’s update content type name, description, and group using PowerShell:
#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"
#parameters
$SiteURL="https://crescent.sharepoint.com/sites/projects"
$ContentTypeID="0x01002A7A908ACAB0054880702EE263AC762B"
#Get Credentials to connect
$Cred= Get-Credential
Try {
#Setup the context
$Ctx = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($SiteURL)
$Ctx.Credentials = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($Cred.Username, $Cred.Password)
#Get content type by ID
$ContentType = $Ctx.web.ContentTypes.GetById($ContentTypeID)
$Ctx.Load($ContentType)
$Ctx.ExecuteQuery()
#sharepoint online update content type powershell
If($ContentType -ne $Null)
{
#Update Content Type Settigs
$ContentType.Name = "Crescent Project Proposal V2"
$ContentType.Description="Project Proposal Content Type with Template V2"
$ContentType.Group = "Crecent Projects"
$ContentType.Update($False)
$Ctx.ExecuteQuery()
Write-host -f Green "Content Type Settings Updated Successfully!"
}
else
{
Write-host "Content Type '$ContentTypeName' doesn't exist!'" -f Yellow
}
}
Catch {
write-host -f Red "Error:" $_.Exception.Message
}
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