SharePoint PowerShell How To: Create SharePoint List Items (in Root and in Folders) for Load/Performance Testing

Create list items in the root of a custom SharePoint list

Script description: Creates 10,000 list items in the root folder of the “OnePlace License R7” list of the site located at the URL “vs-server38”.

#Add SharePoint PowerShell Snapin which adds SharePoint specific cmdlets
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -EA SilentlyContinue

# Script settings
$webUrl = "http://vs-server38"
$listName = "OnePlace Licenses R7"
$numberItemsToCreate = 10000
$itemNamePrefix = "License "

# Open web and library
$web = Get-SPWeb $webUrl
$list = $web.Lists[$listName]

# Create desired number of items in subfolder
for($i=1; $i -le $numberItemsToCreate; $i++)
{
$newItemSuffix = $i.ToString("00000")
$newItem = $list.AddItem()
$newItem["Title"] = "$itemNamePrefix$newItemSuffix"
$newItem.Update()
write-host "Item created: $itemNamePrefix$newItemSuffix"
}

#Dispose web
$web.Dispose()

Create list items in a folder of a custom SharePoint list

Script description: Creates 10,000 list items in the “OnePlaceDocs” folder of the “OnePlace License R7” list of the site located at the URL “vs-server38”.

Note: this assumes you have already created a folder called “OnePlaceDocs”in the list.

#Add SharePoint PowerShell Snapin which adds SharePoint specific cmdlets
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -EA SilentlyContinue

# Script settings
$webUrl = "http://vs-server38"
$listName = "OnePlace Licenses R7"
$subFolderName = "OnePlaceDocs"
$numberItemsToCreate = 10000
$itemNamePrefix = "License "

# Open web and library
$web = Get-SPWeb $webUrl
$list = $web.Lists[$listName]

# Get handle on the subfolder
$subFolder = $list.RootFolder.SubFolders.Item($subFolderName);

# Create desired number of items in subfolder
for($i=1; $i -le $numberItemsToCreate; $i++)
{
$newItemSuffix = $i.ToString("00000")
$newItem = $list.AddItem($subFolder.ServerRelativeUrl, [Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFileSystemObjectType]::File, $null)
$newItem["Title"] = "$itemNamePrefix$newItemSuffix"
$newItem.Update()
write-host "Item created: $itemNamePrefix$newItemSuffix"
}

#Dispose web
$web.Dispose()

Others articles in this series:

• SharePoint PowerShell How To: Create SharePoint List Items (in Root and in Folders) for Load/Performance Testing
• SharePoint PowerShell How To: Create SharePoint Test Documents in Library Folders for Load/Performance Testing
• SharePoint PowerShell How To: Create SharePoint Document Sets for Load/Performance Testing
• SharePoint PowerShell How To: Create SharePoint Library Folders for Load/Performance Testing
• How to import (upload) an entire folder of files to SharePoint using PowerShell