Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Listing a page's web part zones

I have been trying to figure out a way to list all of a page's web part zones. There is not much documentation out there on this. Here's what I have been able to figure out. It is for a publishing web, but the procedure should be pretty much the same.

$myweburl
$mylayouttitle
$web = Get-SPWeb $myweburl
$pWeb = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb]::GetPublishingWeb($web)
$layout = $pWeb.GetAvailablePageLayouts() | Where-Object {$_.Title -eq $mylayouttitle}
$layout.ListItem.Properties['vti_cachedzones']


And to list the webparts on a page:
$pageurl
$wpm = $web.GetLimitedWebPartManager($pageurl, 'Shared'
$wpm.WebParts | Format-Table -AutoSize WebBrowsableObject, ZoneId, ZoneIndex


There's also a post Determine which webpartzones are on a webpartpage that uses reflection to get at a private member however I have not gotten it to work.



1 comment:

  1. The script unfortunately won't tell you where on page is the zone, as it does not show the zone title.

    You can however download the page layout file from the Master Page Gallery, open it in a text editor and find the zone id and title.

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