Error when trying to show a site column in edit and display forms "Method invocation failed because doesn't contain a method named 'ShowInEditForm'."

Question

i am working on an online classic team site, and i have a site column named "AutomaticallyCreated" which is set to hidden inside create,edit and display form. now i want to show it inside the Edit and display forms, so i run the following powershell script :-

$User = "admin@****.onmicrosoft.com"
$SiteURL = "https://***.sharepoint.com/sites/**** #enter site collection url"


#Add references to SharePoint client assemblies and authenticate to Office 365 site – required for CSOM
Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll"
Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll"
$Password = Read-Host -Prompt "enterpassword" -AsSecureString
$Creds = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($User,$Password)

#Bind to site collection
$Context = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($SiteURL)
$Creds = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($User,$Password)
$Context.Credentials = $Creds

$fieldTitle = "AutomaticallyCreated"
$customfield = $Context.Site.RootWeb.Fields.GetByInternalNameOrTitle($fieldTitle) 
$customfield.ShowInEditForm($true)
$customfield.ShowInDisplayForm($true)
$customfield.UpdateAndPushChanges($true)

$Context.ExecuteQuery()

but i got these exceptions:-

Method invocation failed because [Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Field] doesn't
contain a method named 'ShowInEditForm'.
At line:1 char:1
+ $customfield.ShowInEditForm($true)
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [], RuntimeException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodNotFound

Method invocation failed because [Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Field] doesn't
contain a method named 'ShowInDisplayForm'.
At line:1 char:1
+ $customfield.ShowInDisplayForm($true)
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [], RuntimeException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodNotFound

so can anyone advice on this please? the fields should have methods named ShowInEditForm & ShowInDisplayForm..

Answer 1

You need to use SetShowInEditForm and SetShowInDisplayForm when using CSOM.

Modify it as below:

$customfield.SetShowInEditForm($true)
$customfield.SetShowInDisplayForm($true)

Reference - Field.SetShowInEditForm method

Field.SetShowInDisplayForm method