In a previous post I've added content to the publishing pages in the legal and finance divisions and its useful to know what fields are in a list when working with the SharePoint API or say the Query By Content WebPart . Yes you can do using the UI but its a pain.

First get the SPWeb object for our site

$site=spweb "http://sps:2828/divisions/finance"
$web=$site.Openweb()

now show the lists on the site

$web.lists | select title,contenttypes

Title                                   ContentTypes                          
-----                                   ------------                          
Documents                               {Document, Folder}                    
Images                                  {Document, Folder}                    
Master Page Gallery                     {Master Page, Folder}                 
Pages                                   {Page, Article Page, Welcome Page, F...
Workflow History                        {Workflow History}                    
Workflow Tasks                          {Task, Folder}                        

The Pages list holds the publising pages so let's list its fields

$web.lists["Pages"].Fields | select title, internalname, typedisplayname | sort title

Title                      InternalName               TypeDisplayName         
-----                      ------------               ---------------         
Approval                   Approval                   Workflow Status         
Approval Status            _ModerationStatus          Moderation Status       
Approver Comments          _ModerationComments        Multiple lines of text  
Article Date               ArticleStartDate           Date and Time           
Byline                     ArticleByLine              Single line of text     
Check In Comment           _CheckinComment            Lookup                  
Checked Out To             CheckedOutTitle            Lookup                  
Checked Out To             CheckoutUser               Person or Group         
Checked Out To             LinkCheckedOutTitle        Computed                
Client Limit               Client_x0020_Limit         Number                  
Collect Feedback           CollectF                   Workflow Status         
Collect Signatures         CollectS                   Workflow Status         
Contact                    PublishingContact          Person or Group         
Contact E-Mail Address     PublishingContactEmail     Single line of text     
Contact Name               PublishingContactName      Single line of text     
Contact Picture            PublishingContactPicture   Hyperlink or Picture    
Content Type               ContentType                Choice                  
Content Type ID            ContentTypeId              Content Type Id       

etc...

There are a lot of fields, to get the count use $web.lists["Pages"].Fields | measure-object
That gives 92 fields for the Pages library.

To see the content publishing pages themselves use

$web.lists["Pages"].Items | select name, file, level

Name                       File                                           Level
----                       ----                                           -----
default.aspx               Pages/default.aspx                             Draft
Client1.aspx               Pages/Client1.aspx                             Published

and finally two functions for our toolbox to make calling these easier

function get-SPListFields([string]$URL, [string]$ListName)
{
$site=get-spweb $URL
$web=$site.OpenWeb()
$list=$web.Lists[$ListName]
$list.Fields
}

function get-SPListItems([string]$URL, [string]$ListName)
{
$site=get-spweb $URL
$web=$site.OpenWeb()
$list=$web.Lists[$ListName]
$list.Items
}

These functions will come in useful later when we approve pages in a site with PowerShell.