PowerShell Script to retrieve every and only List / Library items in a specific view in SharePoint 2010

Question

I am trying to iterate over each item in specific view for a list in SharePoint 2010.

What i have so far works to return items in the view, but only the items in the first paginated view for that set. So even though all Documents contains 11K items i only get 30 returned to me.

I found this question and it was answered, but the code there doesnt work for me: Powershell Script to get items only in a particular view of SharePoint List/library

Here is what i am trying:

$web = Get-SPWeb http://myweb
$list = $web.Lists["MyList"]
$view = $list.Views["MyViewName"]
$items = $list.GetItems($view)
$cntItems = 0
foreach($item in $items)
{
   $cntItems++
}
write-host $cntItems

The above returns 30 since that is what the view has as its page item limit.

30

Is there some setting or some other way to do what i am trying to do?

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

You can use SPQuery in Powershell

if ((Get-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null) {
       Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell"
}
$web = Get-SPWeb http://myweb/
$list = $web.Lists["MyList"]
$spQuery = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPQuery
$spQuery.Query = $list.Views["ViewName"].Query
$items = $list.GetItems($spQuery)
$cntItems = 0
foreach($item in $items)
{
   $cntItems++
}
write-host $cntItems

Answer 2

Try the below code:

SPSite site = new SPSite("http://simosi.com");
        SPWeb web = site.RootWeb;
        SPList lst = web.Lists.TryGetList("Tasks");
        if (lst != null)
        {


            SPQuery q = new SPQuery();
            q.Query = lst.Views["ActiveTask"].Query;

            SPListItemCollection items =lst.GetItems(q);
            Console.WriteLine(items.Count);

        }

Sorurce, you can also try to disable the paging as mentioned in the link.

Answer 3

Try below code : I think it should be better in performance wise

$web = Get-SPWeb http://portal.sharepoint.com
$list = $web.Lists["LargeList"]
$view = $list["your view name"]

$spQuery = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPQuery($view)

do
 {
      $listItems = $list.GetItems($spQuery)
      $spQuery.ListItemCollectionPosition = $listItems.ListItemCollectionPosition
      foreach($item in $listItems)
        {
         Write-Host $item.Title
        }
 }
while ($spQuery.ListItemCollectionPosition -ne $null)

How it will help.