PowerShell to find SharePoint Content Types

 

A few quick PowerShell scripts…

 

Find all lists that support a particular content type:

 

$webs = get-spsite http://yourserver/sites/yoursite | get-spweb 

foreach ($web in $webs) 
{
  foreach ($lst in $web.lists) 
  { 
    foreach ($ctype in $lst.ContentTypes) 
    { 
      if ($ctype.Name -eq "Document") 
      { $lst.DefaultViewUrl }
    }
  } 
  $web.Dispose() 
}

(Can be typed as all one line.)

 

For SharePoint 2007 replace the first line with these three:

    [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint")

    $site = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite(http://yourserver/sites/yoursite)

    $webs = $site.AllWebs

 

 

Find all list items of a particular content type:

 

$webs = get-spsite http://yourserver/sites/yoursite | get-spweb 

foreach ($web in $webs)
{
  foreach ($lst in $web.lists)
  {
    foreach ($item in $lst.Items)
    {
      if ($item.ContentType.Name -eq "Document")
      { $item.Url}
    }
  }
  $web.Dispose() 
}

(Can be typed as all one line.)

 

Get a list of all Content Types in a web:

$site = Get-SPSite http://yourserver/sites/yoursite

$web = $site.RootWeb

foreach ($ctype in $web.ContentTypes) {$ctype.Name}

These examples used the content type’s name property. You could also use the ID property.

 

 

C#

And for completeness, here’s a C# version to find all lists that support a particular content type:

using System;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;

namespace ConsoleApplication6
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            SPSite site = new SPSite(http://yourserver/sites/yoursite);
            
            SPWebCollection webs = site.AllWebs;
            foreach (SPWeb web in webs) { 
                foreach (SPList lst in web.Lists) { 
                    foreach (SPContentType ctype in lst.ContentTypes) { 
                        if (ctype.Name == "Document") {
                            Console.WriteLine(lst.DefaultViewUrl);
                        } 
                    }
                }
                web.Dispose();
            }
            site.Dispose();
        }
    }
}

 

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