How to Upload the Page Layouts into SharePoint 2013 Using PowerShell

Already in this article, we saw how to upload the master page and the display templates into sharepoint by using PowerShell. In the same manner, during our development, there are almost 5 artifacts which needs to be uploaded frequently. We cannot rely on the WSP every time, during our development phase. Hence, we require some sort of scripts to upload/publish the below artifacts frequently.

1. Display Templates

2. Master Pages

3. CSS files

4. Javascript Files

5. Page Layouts

Almost all the files will be uploaded in a similar manner, but the slight different is the path and the folder, where we are uploading them. Based on our requirement, this could be anywhere. Some people will keep their css, js files in style library, some could keep it somewhere else. Hence, I request you guys to modify the Paths accordingly. Let us see them one by one. In this article let us see how to upload the Page Layouts in to SharePoint 2013.

 ##================================================================================================
 ## Description	: To do the below two items.
     #1. Upload the Page Layouts into Site Collection
 ## Author		: Sathish Nadarajan
 ## Date			: 08-Oct-2015
 ##================================================================================================
 
 ##============================================ Setup Input Paths ===========================================================
 
 cls
  
 $Host.UI.RawUI.WindowTitle = "-- Upload the PageLayouts into Site Collection --"
 
 $StartDate = Get-Date
 Write-Host -ForegroundColor White "------------------------------------"
 Write-Host -ForegroundColor White "| Upload the PageLayouts into Site Collection |"
 Write-Host -ForegroundColor White "| Started on: $StartDate |"
 Write-Host -ForegroundColor White "------------------------------------"
 
 $LogTime = Get-Date -Format yyyy-MM-dd_hh-mm
 $LogFile = ".UploadPageLayouts-$LogTime.rtf"
 
 #start-transcript $logfile
 
 $scriptBase = split-path $SCRIPT:MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path -parent
 Set-Location $scriptBase
 
 $ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"
 
 function AddPowerShellSnapin()
 {
     try
     {
         Write-Host "Adding PowerShell Snap-in" -ForegroundColor Green
         # Try to get the PowerShell Snappin.  If not, then adding the PowerShell snappin on the Catch Block
         Get-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell" 
     }
     catch
     {
         if($Error[0].Exception.Message.Contains("No Windows PowerShell snap-ins matching the pattern 'Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell' were found"))
         {
             Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell"
         }
     }
     Write-Host "Finished Adding PowerShell Snap-in" -ForegroundColor Green
 }
  
 
 function UploadPageLayouts([string]$siteUrl)
 {
     $spsite = Get-SPSite $siteUrl
     $web = $spsite.RootWeb
     $contentWebPartsDisplayTemplatesFolder = ($web).GetFolder("Master Page Gallery")
     $displayTemplatesDirectory = $scriptBase + "PageLayouts"
     $web.AllowUnsafeUpdates=$true;
 
     #For upload all files in document library from file system
     foreach ($file in Get-ChildItem $displayTemplatesDirectory)
     {
          try
          {
                  $stream = [IO.File]::OpenRead($file.fullname)
                  $destUrl = $web.Url + "/_catalogs/masterpage/" + $file.Name;
                  $displayTemplateFile = $web.GetFile($destUrl)
                   
                  if($displayTemplateFile.CheckOutStatus -ne "None")
                  {
                      $contentWebPartsDisplayTemplatesFolder.files.Add($destUrl,$stream,$true)
                      $stream.close() 
                           
                      $displayTemplateFile.CheckIn("CheckIn by PowerShell");                         
                      $displayTemplateFile.Publish("Publish by PowerShell");                         
                       
                      $displayTemplateFile.Update();        
                      $web.Update();
                      
                      Write-Host $file.Name " Page Layouts uploaded on $web site" -ForegroundColor Green  
                       
                  }
                  else
                  {
                      $displayTemplateFile.CheckOut();
                      try
                      {
                         $contentWebPartsDisplayTemplatesFolder.Files.Add($destUrl,$stream,$true)
                      }
                      catch
                      {
                         Write-Host $_
                      }
                      $stream.close()                             
                      $displayTemplateFile.CheckIn("CheckIn by PowerShell");                         
                      $displayTemplateFile.Publish("Publish by PowerShell");                         
                       
                      $displayTemplateFile.Update();        
                      $web.Update();
                      
                       
                      Write-Host $file.Name " Page Layouts uploaded on $web site" -ForegroundColor Green  
                       
                  }
          }
          catch
          {
              Write-Host $_  
          }    
      }
   
   $web.AllowUnsafeUpdates  = $false;
 
  $web.dispose();
  $spsite.dispose();
 }
 
 try
 {
     [void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Sharepoint")
     [void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Sharepoint.Administration")
     AddPowerShellSnapin
     UploadPageLayouts "http://MySiteCollection" # SiteCollection URL
 }
 catch
 {
     Write-Host "Custom Exception Happened on Main : " + $Error[0].Exception.Message -ForegroundColor Red  
 }
 

This PowerShell script will Add the File for the first time, and from, the second time onwards, it will check out and check in the files. Hence, we will not lose our versioning as well.

Let us see the other artifacts in the upcoming articles.

Happy Coding,

Sathish Nadarajan.