PowerShell Script for Setting the Welcome Page View of a document set

Question

Hi,
We are using document set in the document library and we have created the separate view in the document set and it will show only particular metadata columns. We need to change from default view to another view. For this, we need to write the power shell
script and update the document set welcome page view link in the document set template. Please let me know how we can get this.
Thanks,
Mylsamy

Answer 1

Hey Mylsamy,
welcome page view is stored in $contenttype.XmlDocuments. Here is how you can change the view using powershell:
$web = Get-SPWeb "WEBURL"
$list = $web.Lists["LISTNAME"]
$contenttype = $list.ContentTypes["CONTENTYPENAME"]
$viewid = $list.Views["VIEWNAME"].Id
$xmldocs = $contenttype.XmlDocuments
foreach($xmldoc in $xmldocs)
if($xmldoc.Contains("WelcomePageView"))
Write-Host "XML contains WPV"
$newview = [XML] @"
<wpv:WelcomePageView xmlns:wpv="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/documentsets/welcomepageview" ViewId="$viewid" />
$xmldocs.Delete("http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/documentsets/welcomepageview")
$xmldocs.Add($newview)
break;
$contenttype.Update($updateChildren, $false)
Write-Host "Welcome Page View updated at " $list.Title
Regards,
Alexander