PowerShell Query SharePoint List Based on the View

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PowerShell Query SharePoint List Based on the View

Summary

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Background

Code used by OP will query only default view - That's SharePoint default behaviour whenever we do query using PowerShell it will fetch the information from Default View

Solution

We should tell PowerShell explicitly to query the required view

PowerShell Code

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 function Get-SPSite([string]$url) {

New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($url)
}

function Get-SPWeb([string]$url) {

$SPSite = Get-SPSite $url
return $SPSite.OpenWeb()
$SPSite.Dispose()
}

function Get-SPList([string]$url, [string]$List) {

$OpenWeb = Get-SPWeb $url
$OpenList = $OpenWeb.Lists[$List]

return $OpenList

$OpenWeb.Dispose()
}

$url = "http://localhost"
$List = "EmployeeBirthdays"
$View = "Homepage"

$BirthdaysList = Get-SPList -url $url -List $List

foreach($EmpName in $BirthdaysList.Items) 
{
$EmpName.Title #---->displays all titles, which is all users
}

Fix

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 #Method 1
$viewName = "View name" 
$view = $list.Views[$viewName]

#Method 2
$viewId = "A6932332-765A-4776-A1DF-18016DA1D645" 
$view = $list.GetView($viewId)