Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

Creating List Items On-the-Fly

When building demonstration and presentation sites, a function that might come in handy is the PowerShell function for creating items in a list. The following sample shows how you could build such a function. It creates a list item in a custom list and assigns only a title for the list item, but it could be extended to create more complex items:

You can use the preceding function by typing the following:

The preceding code creates three new items (John White, Ann Green, Zoey Gray) in the list "The Team" located on ...