Mark Overdijk | zevenseas | SharePoint Blog

​For a client we created an extended powershell script to do an One-Click deployment of their intranet. This was awesome to create because it really saved huge amounts of time creating sites & site collections, adding and activating solutions and setting permissions, navigation and master pages. 

But we still had to add a piece of code to create pages in the Pages Library. After a quick search, I came across this blogpost of Brendan Newell. It helped me out greatly! It just missed 1 crucial element; setting the page title. So I added this to his script. They were minor changes (in bold), so all credits go to Brendan.

Powershell Script;

# Read in list of pages from XML

[xml]$pagesXML = Get-Content “pages.xml”

if ($pagesXML -eq $null) { return }

# Get publishing web

$site = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($server1)

$web = $site.rootweb

$pWeb = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb]::GetPublishingWeb($web)

# Loop through each page node to extract filename and titlename

$pagesXML.Pages.Page | ForEach-Object {

    $fileName = [string]$_.FileName

    Write-Host “Creating $fileName”

    $titleName = [string]$_.TitleName

    Write-Host “Creating $titleName” 

    # Create blank page

    $newPage = $pWeb.AddPublishingPage()

    $newPage.Update()

    # Update the filename to the one specified in the XML

    $newPage.ListItem["BaseName"] = $fileName

    $newPage.ListItem["Title"] = $titleName

    $newPage.ListItem.SystemUpdate()

    # Check-in and publish page

    $newPage.CheckIn(“”)

    $newPage.ListItem.File.Publish(“”);

}

# Dispose of the web

$web.Dispose()​

XML Structure;

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<Pages>

  <Page>

    <FileName>P1</FileName>

    <TitleName>Page One</TitleName>

  </Page>

  <Page>

    <FileName>P2</FileName>

    <TitleName>Page Two</TitleName>

  </Page>

</Pages>