Updating a view using powershell

Question

I have created a list and added some new fields in my sharepoint site. I now want to add my new fields onto the All Items view using Powershell is this possible? I tried :

$viewFields = New-Object System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection
$viewFields.Add("Title")
$viewFields.Add($myFieldPrivacyStatementurl)
$viewFields.Add($myFieldIsActive)
$viewFields.Add($myFieldSortOrder)

#
# View Name
$viewName = “All Privacy Statements”
#
# Finally – Provisioning the View
$myListView = $myList.Views.Add($viewName, $viewFields, "", 100, $True, $False)
#

$myListView.DefaultView = $True
$myListView.Update()
#
$myList.OnQuickLaunch = $True
$myList.Update()

But this just adds a new all items view any help would be appreciated

Answer 1

Get the web and list:

$w = Get-SPWeb http://localhost
$l = $w.Lists["My list"];

This is how you select the view "All items":

$view = $l.Views | ? { $_.Title -eq 'All items' }

Then just add fields:

$view.ViewFields.Add($hereGoesFieldName);

And update view:

$view.Update();

Answer 2

Retrieve All Items view by using $myList.DefaultView if it is a default view or by using the index $myList.Views["All Items"]. Then add fields to it and finally update it.

$defaultView = $myList.DefaultView;
// Repeat this line for all fields
$defaultView.ViewFields.Add($myList.Fields["FieldName"]);

$defaultView.Update();