How to create a List/document library view programmatically

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This week Challenge hunters came across one such challenging question across many blogs.

“How to create a List/document library view programmatically?”
Reference: http://suguk.org/forums/thread/13624.aspx

“Create Document Library Views programmatically”
Reference: http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Server/MS-SharePoint/Q_23345716.html

And the solution is here:

To create a view in a list you have a SPViewCollection.Add Method (Microsoft.SharePoint).
There are 2 overloads available with the following parameters to be set:

Parameters

strViewName
A string that contains the name of the view.
strCollViewFields

A System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection object that contains the internal names of the view fields.

strQuery
A Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML) string that contains the Where clause for the query.

iRowLimit
A 32-bit unsigned integer that specifies the maximum number of items to return in the view. Specifying a value greater than Int32.MaxValue (2,147,483,647 or hexadecimal 0x7FFFFFFF) throws an exception because the value is out of range.

bPaged
true to specify that the view supports displaying more items page by page; otherwise, false.

bMakeViewDefault
true to make the view the default view; otherwise, false.

type
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPViewCollection.SPViewType.Html
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPViewCollection.SPViewType.Grid

bPersonalView
true to create a personal view; false to create a public view.

Return Value
An SPView object that represents the view.

The below code is written for Creating a Grid view and displays all items in a list.

SPSite oSiteCollection = SPContext.Current.Site;
using (SPWeb oWebsite = oSiteCollection.AllWebs["Website_Name"])
{
SPList oList = oWebsite.Lists["List_Name"];
SPViewCollection collViews = oList.Views;

string strViewName = "View_Name";

System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection collViewFields = new System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection();

collViewFields.Add("Field1_Name");
collViewFields.Add("Field2_Name");
collViewFields.Add("Field3_Name");

string strQuery = "<Where><Gt><FieldRef Name='ID' /><Value Type='Counter'>0</Value></Gt></Where>";

collViews.Add(strViewName, collViewFields, strQuery, 100, true, false);
}


You can also create a View based on a previous view. Example you have a View “All Items”.

To achieve this you have to just write the below piece of code:

SPSite oSiteCollection = SPContext.Current.Site;
using (SPWeb oWebsite = oSiteCollection.AllWebs["Website_Name"])
{
SPList oList = oWebsite.Lists["List_Name"];
SPViewCollection collViews = oList.Views;

string strViewName = "View_Name";


string strQuery = "<Where><Gt><FieldRef Name='ID' /><Value Type='Counter'>0</Value></Gt></Where>";

collViews.Add(strViewName, oList.Views["All Items"].ViewFields.ToStringCollection(), strQuery, 100, true, false);

}

To Create a View a HTML View instead of a Grid View then…try this

collViews.Add(strViewName, collViewFields, strQuery, 100, true, false , Microsoft.SharePoint.SPViewCollection.SPViewType.Html, False)

Thank you!