Modify OOB Site Column Using PowerShell

In this blog you will learn how to Modify OOB Site Column Using PowerShell.

Scenario

During my training, I was asked to modify, the title of “Name” field (out of box site column) from a page library. As it was out of box and widely used field, so we cannot change it web level. I had to do it, using PowerShell. Following are few self-described PowerShell command to fulfil my requirement. Following figure showing the field title before modification.



Script:

• Getting the site
  
  $site = Get-SPSite -Identity http://Kirti:1111/
  
  
• Getting the web, where the Page library exists
  
  $web = $site.RootWeb
  
  
• Getting required Page Library
  
  $list=$web.Lists["Pages"]
  
  
• Find the “NAme” (OOB Field) field need to changed
  
  $field = $list.Fields["Name"]
  
  
• Change the Title of the Field
  
  $field.title="File Name"
  
  
• Commite the changes to SharePoint
  
  $field.update()

The property of the site column will changed as shown in following figure.