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Rename a document stored inside a SharePoint document library using Office Dev PnP
How to rename a document/file stored inside a documentlibrary using Office Dev PnP? I haven't found a cmdlet for it. Specifically I want to rename the OneNote Notebook called "Team Site Notebo...
I might be misinterpreting the question, but does this help?
"MoveTo" can be used to rename files.
Connect-SPOnline -url [yoururl] $ctx = Get-SPOContext $web = Get-SPOWeb $file = $web.GetFileByServerRelativeUrl("[your file url]") $file.MoveTo("[your NEW server-relative url]", 'Overwrite') $ctx.ExecuteQuery()
I might be misinterpreting the question, but does this help?
"MoveTo" can be used to rename files.
Connect-SPOnline -url [yoururl]
$ctx = Get-SPOContext
$web = Get-SPOWeb
$file = $web.GetFileByServerRelativeUrl("[your file url]")
$file.MoveTo("[your NEW server-relative url]", 'Overwrite')
$ctx.ExecuteQuery()
I was just surprised that there is not a cmdlet inside the Office Dev PnP library, e.g. Rename-SPOFile($SourceFileName, $DestinationFileName) method, or Move-SPOFile($SourceFileName, $DestinationFileName).
Thanks Deleted and Charles Willwerth for the solutions.
I'm now using the SharePoint Online CSOM based solution of Charles to realize the business requirement.
- Well, PnP is an open source project that can always be improved and extended by the community :-). This might be an opportunity to add a cmdlet for this scenario :-)
