Get all the views for the specified SharePoint 2010 list using web service in powershell

Steps Involved:

1. Open SharePoint 2010 Management Shell by going to Start | All Programs | SharePoint | Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products | SharePoint 2010 Management Shell (Run as Administrator).
2. Run the following script.

Powershell Script:

## Get all the views for the specified SharePoint 2010 list using web service in powershell ## Web Service Reference - http://Site/_vti_bin/Views.asmx $uri="http://serverName:10736/sites/ECT/_vti_bin/Views.asmx?wsdl" ## $listName is the string that contains the list name from which we need to get all the views [String]$listName="List" $viewsWebServiceReference = New-WebServiceProxy -Uri $uri -UseDefaultCredential ## GetViewCollection method is used to return the collection of views for the specified SharePoint 2010 list [System.Xml.XmlNode]$xmlNode=$viewsWebServiceReference.GetViewCollection($listName) ## Creates an ViewCollection.xml file in the D:\ which contains all the views for the specified SharePoint 2010 list $output = New-Object -TypeName System.IO.StreamWriter -ArgumentList "D:\ViewCollection.xml", $false $output.WriteLine("<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8"" ?>") $output.WriteLine($xmlNode.OuterXml) $output.WriteLine() $output.Dispose() Write-Host -ForegroundColor Magenta "Displaying all the view Names............" foreach($view in $xmlNode.View) { Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green $view.DisplayName }

Output:




ViewCollection.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> - <Views xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/">   <View Name="{D959C5C0-93AF-443B-8446-5011883094E3}" DefaultView="TRUE" MobileView="TRUE" MobileDefaultView="TRUE" Type="HTML" DisplayName="All Items" Url="/sites/ECT/Lists/List/AllItems.aspx" Level="1" BaseViewID="1" ContentTypeID="0x" ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/generic.png" /> </Views>