1             Introduction

Publishing script for SharePoint 2010 automates the publishing, approving of SharePoint contents like pages, xsl sheets and everything that is residing inside a document library with versioning and content approval enabled. Generally, in a SharePoint 2010 WCM development project, multiple items get checked out during development. Towards, the end of the project during deployment, the developer or tester has to manually find all the unpublished items. Checking in these items and approving those manually is a time consuming task. This script automates these all manual steps. You can use this script for “bulk publishing” of multiple documents on SharePoint 2010.

2             Features

Following is the list of features provided by the tool

•  Publishing files with specific extension
•  Can Check-in folders
• You may use this script to check in, approve and publish contents on a specific sub site. This script can recursively check for the checked out contents on sub sites of current site, and then check in, approve and publish that content.
• Publishing items inside folders of document library. This script is specifically written to be used only on a list of “Document Library” type.

3             Prerequisites

• SharePoint 2010 Management shell (This gets installed automatically with the SharePoint 2010 installation)
• You must have an administrative access to the farm on which this script is to be used
• Administrative access to site and sub sites on which this script is gonging to run

4             Installation Instructions

For installing this script on your local machine follow these instructions

• Create folder on C drive say “PowerShell”
• Copy “PublishSPContent.ps1” to this folder
• Open “SharePoint 2010 Management Shell”
• CD to this folder
• Execute command “.\PublishSPContent.ps1”

4.1             Sample Commands

• For checking in, approving and publishing contents on any site collection and all sub sites

.\PublishSContent.ps1 –Url “http://yoursite” –Recursive $true

• For checking in, approving and publishing contents on any sub site and children of sub site

.\PublishSContent.ps1 –Url “http://yoursite/subsite” –Recursive $true

• For checking in, approving and publishing file of specific extension

.\PublishSContent.ps1 –Url “http://yoursite/subsite” –Recursive $true –Extension “.aspx”

• For specifying custom check in and approval comment

.\PublishSContent.ps1 –Url “http://yoursite” –Recursive $true –Comment “My Approval”

• For Setting “ApproveFolders” to “False”

.\PublishSContent.ps1 –Url “http://yoursite/subsite” –Recursive $true –ApproveFolders $false

5             Command line parameters

5.1             “-Url”

Type	Description
Category	Required Parameter
Value	Url of Site collection or sub site
Format	String
Default Value	N.A.

5.2             “-Extension”

Type	Description
Category	Optional Parameter
Value	Extension of files to be approved (e.g “.aspx”)
Format	String
Default Value	“.*”

5.3             “-Comment”

Type	Description
Category	Optional Parameter
Value	Comment for checking in/publishing file
Format	String
Default Value	“System Approval”

5.4             “-ApproveFolders”

Type	Description
Category	Optional Parameter
Value	True or False based upon the requirement
Format	Boolean
Default Value	$true

5.5             “-Recursive”

Type	Description
Category	Optional Parameter
Value	True if you want to recursively publish contents of current site and all subsites
Format	Boolean
Default Value	$false

6             Troubleshooting

• If you get any error related to permissions while executing this script, Right click on ps1 file go to properties -> Security and then check if the “Unblock” option is available. Click on “Unblock button” to grant execute permission to this script.

• Always execute this script under the user account which has “Owner” authority for the current site