get hold of a list

Question

$web gives me the title of the website $list is not giving me any and therefore item add/update i m doing is failing. What is wrong? The code works in dev area. btw, I am running with full rights on the app server.

if((Get-PSSnapin | Where {$_.Name -eq “Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell”}) -eq $null)
{
    Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell
}

$web = Get-SPWeb "http://intranet.Rubbermaid.com/Sales" 
$ListName = "2012SalesReport1Q"
$list = $web.Lists[$ListName]

write-host $web
write-host $list
write-host " - - - - Starting Process - - - - "

Rest of the code...

Answer 1

This means $web.Lists[$ListName] returns null. The reason is that you should pass title, not list root folder name or list url, to the SPWeb.Lists[string] indexer. For example:

$list = $web.Lists["My precious list"]

I assume 2012SalesReport1Q in your code refers to the list root folder name, i.e. it has address http://portal/Lists/2012SalesReport1Q. In this case, to get the list object, you should use SPWeb.GetListFromWebPartPageUrl method (a bit long, yep :)..):

$list = $web.GetListFromWebPartPageUrl("http://portal/Lists/2012SalesReport1Q/AllItems.aspx")

Notice we have to pass full url of the list view page, including "AllItems.aspx", otherwise it won't work.