In this short post I want to give you an example of how you can clone a SharePoint list using a SharePoint power shell script.
Here is the script:
# get web $web = Get-SPWeb http://yoursite # get list $list = $web.Lists["Your List"] # save list as a template without content $list.SaveAsTemplate($list.ID.ToString(), $list.ID.ToString(), "", $false) # get the template from the custom list templates $template = $web.Site.GetCustomListTemplates($web)[$list.ID.ToString()] # clone list using the template $archive = $web.Lists.Add($list.Title + "_Archive", "Archive for the list " + $list.Title, $template);
# get web $web = Get-SPWeb http://yoursite # get list $list = $web.Lists["Your List"] # save list as a template without content $list.SaveAsTemplate($list.ID.ToString(), $list.ID.ToString(), "", $false) # get the template from the custom list templates $template = $web.Site.GetCustomListTemplates($web)[$list.ID.ToString()] # clone list using the template $archive = $web.Lists.Add($list.Title + "_Archive", "Archive for the list " + $list.Title, $template);
I used this script to create an archive for this list. In this case I also had to remove all the item event receivers from the copied list.
# remove all event receivers from the cloned list ForEach($r in $($archive.EventReceivers)) { $r.Delete() }
# remove all event receivers from the cloned list
ForEach($r in $($archive.EventReceivers))
{
$r.Delete()
}Learn how to copy your list to a different SharePoint site or site collection.
If you are interested, here is an example of how you can archive items using a SharePoint Designer Workflow.
