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How to find the person who created a specific SharePoint List
Hello Community,
I would like your help on steps to identify the Author(creator) of a SharePoint list. I don't this info is available in the UI.
Also Get-SPweb command is not working for SharePoint online.
Kindly provide me a PowerShell command to fetch the List Author for a list under SharePoint Online list.
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Why is it so difficult to find this information? It should be the same as who created site pages + Add Columns to show more info right?
SaiRamPenumatsa You can try using the SharePoint API as shown below. You'll just need to change the TENANT, NAME_OF_SITE and LIST_TITLE.
https://TENANT.sharepoint.com/sites/NAME_OF_SITE/_api/web/lists/GetByTitle('LIST_TITLE')/Author/Title
If you don't want the title of the author, you can also use /Email /LoginName or /UserPrincipalName, etc.
Just in case it's not intuitive (I'm not super experienced), to follow grant_jenkins suggestion, you just need to create the URL and paste it into your browser to call the SharePoint API
Note, this may be obvious to many, but please make sure to enter in the list name as it appears in the URL -- "test_list" likely would need to be entered as 'test%20list'
