Get-SPOListItem with -Fields "Title",Modified" does not dispay correct results about pnp-powershell

[NPrice99]

Change "Title "to "Name" getr same result

[erwinvanhunen]

The reason you get that output is because of the way PowerShell works. What you see is a collection of list items. PowerShell has no knowledge whatsoever of which fields are being included in the listitem. It renders (through the means of a definition that is located in a static file, OfficeDevPnP.PowerShell.Commands.Format.ps1xml, that is located in the installation folder of the cmdlets), a few of the object properties (so not fields) that are always there for a listitem, regardless if they have a value or not.

In your case you will have to do some additional powershell scripting:

 Get-SPOListItem -List "Style Library" -Fields "FileLeafRef", "Modified" | %{new-object psobject -property  @{Id = $_.Id; Name = $_["FileLeafRef"]; Modified = $_["Modified"]}} | select Id, Name, Modified

This basically tells the cmdlet to retrieve the list items in the Style Library, and only load the FileLeafRef and Modified field values for those items, that's the whole reason behind the Fields parameter, not to define what it outputs, but to define what it retrieves, to offload the server and to keep the data going over the wire as small as possible.

Regarding the Name/Title field: what SharePoint renders as a 'Name' in the UI for a document library is actually stored in the "FileLeafRef" field. If you want to see the full path, use "FileRef" instead.

The second part of the example above tells PowerShell to create a new object, and set 3 properties, Id, Name and Modified to it's appropriate values, where $_ refers to the current listitem object.

The 3rd part the example above, the select cmdlet, makes sure that the properties are rendered in the order you want them to be rendered in.

I will close this issue now.

[NPrice99]

Thanks Erwin - should this not be in the get-help -detailed help text ?

[erwinvanhunen]

As such it's standard behaviour of any powershell cmdlet to return objects, there is no specific case around the get-spolistitem cmdlet as such in my opinion. But be my guest and add it? It doesn't hurt to have it there.

[NPrice99]

Do I need Visual Studio to do it ?

From: Erwin van Hunen [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 3:58 PM
To: OfficeDev/PnP-PowerShell [email protected]
Cc: Nigel Price [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PnP-PowerShell] Get-SPOListItem with -Fields "Title",Modified" does not dispay correct results (#76)

As such it's standard behaviour of any powershell cmdlet to return objects, there is no specific case around the get-spolistitem cmdlet as such in my opinion. But be my guest and add it? It doesn't hurt to have it there.

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[erwinvanhunen]

yes, it requires visual studio, and a correctly set up git fork and repository