Did you ever wanted to quickly delete all items from a SharePoint list without having to run into complex scenarios?
This can be simply achieved using PnP Powershell (obviously!). And it fits in a single line!
If you are looking for options to delete documents from SharePoint document libraries, maybe this post can help.
Delete SharePoint list items
Connect to the site using Connect-PnPOnline and then run:
Get-PnPList -Identity Lists/MyList | Get-PnPListItem -PageSize 100 -ScriptBlock { Param($items)
$items.Context.ExecuteQuery() } | % {$_.DeleteObject()}
Hello, Joel
Hope you are doing well.
And how about doing a Filter on $Items before a deleting action ??
Warm regards.
Hi Mario, I think a filter would work just fine. You should be able to do it straight from the Get-PnPListItem command: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/sharepoint-pnp/get-pnplistitem?view=sharepoint-ps
Hi Joel,
I have the same problem and at first came to the same solution. But then I thought:
“$_.DeleteObject()” runs for each item… Is there a way to run “delete” on the server side in a batches?
So i tried:
Get-PnPListItem -List $list -Fields “ID” -PageSize 100 -ScriptBlock { Param($items) $items | Sort-Object -Descending | ForEach-Object{ $_.DeleteObject() } }
and it worked. Thougts?
Hi Vladilen,
That looks fine to me and may be much better in terms of performance. Have you tried to delete 1000+ items to ensure that it does not time out? If not, that’s great and thanks for sharing here