create list template from list in SharePoint online & download the template using CSOM in Powershell 2013

Question

Trying to create a list template from custom list using Powershell in SharePoint online and trying to download the template on my local machine.

How to create list template achieve above requirement

Updates in question :- How to create list template using client side object model in PowerShell? suggest links..

Answer 1

$site = get-spsite("http://testsite")
$web = $site.RootWeb
$list = $web.Lists["Announcements"]
SharePoint $list.SaveAsTemplate() PowerShell Command use following parameters.
$list.SaveAsTemplate(“Template Name”,”Template Title”,”Template Description”,1)

In the forth parameter of SaveAsTemplate(), if you want to save the specified site as template along with data use 1, otherwise use 0.

Eg:- $list.SaveAsTemplate("TestListTemplate.stp", "TestListTemplate", "Test List Template", $false)

Source : Creating a List template from a list with PowerShell

Answer 2

Based on myknowledge, it’s not feasible to export lists and libraries in SharePoint Online using PowerShell.

For detailed information about the cmdlets for SharePoint Online, please see:

Introduction to the SharePoint Online Management Shell.

Basically using CSOM you can create lists using already existing custom templates, but programmatically you cannot create new ones as SaveAsTemplate method is not exposed in CSOM API.

To create a list from existing custom template below is the code.

ClientContext context = new ClientContext("http://SiteUrl");
var web = context.Web;
context.Load(web,s => s.ListTemplates );
context.ExecuteQuery();
var listCreationInfo = new ListCreationInformation
{
Title = "My Jobs",
Description = "This is the job list description"
};
var listTemplate = site.ListTemplates.First(template => template.Name == "Jobs");
listCreationInfo.TemplateFeatureId = listTemplate.FeatureId;
listCreationInfo.TemplateType = listTemplate.ListTemplateTypeKind;
site.Lists.Add(listCreationInfo);
context.ExecuteQuery();