PowerShell Tool to Enumerate the Content Type Usage in SharePoint 2010

A customer of mine has the problem that he wants to remove a Web Content Type but SharePoint says the content type is still in use.

Therefore I created a tool for enumerating all web and list content types of all sites.

The following script scans the SharePoint farm and creates a Windows form with a Treeview like this:

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(Web) = Web Content Types

(List) = List Content Types

The tool show the content type inheritence:

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Here you see the List Content Type “Image” that based on the Web Content Type “Image” that based on the Web Content Type “Rich Media Asset” that based on Web Content Type “Document” that is inherited from the “System” Content Type.

It’s possible to open the content type management site by clicking “_open management site” or open the related list or web by clicking “_open list” or “_open web”.

This is the script:

#region Init
    Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
    [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint") | Out-Null
    [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms")  | Out-Null
    cls
#endregion

#region Form
    $form = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Form

    $button = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button
    $treeview = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TreeView

    $form.SuspendLayout()

    $button.DialogResult = [System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult]::Cancel
    $button.Dock = [System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle]::Bottom
    $button.Location = (new-object System.Drawing.Point(0, 250))
    $button.Name = "button1"
    $button.Size = (new-object System.Drawing.Size(292, 23))
    $button.TabIndex = 0
    $button.Text = "Close"
    $button.UseVisualStyleBackColor = $true

    $treeview.Dock = [System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle]::Fill
    $treeview.Location = (new-object System.Drawing.Point(0, 0))
    $treeview.Name = "treeView1"
    $treeview.Size = (new-object System.Drawing.Size(292, 250))
    $treeview.TabIndex = 1

    $form.AutoScaleDimensions = new-object System.Drawing.SizeF(6.0, 13.0)
    $form.AutoScaleMode = [System.Windows.Forms.AutoScaleMode]::Font
    $form.ClientSize = (new-object System.Drawing.Size(292, 273))
    $form.Controls.Add($button)
    $form.Controls.Add($treeview)
    $form.Name = "Content Type Usage "
    $form.Text = "Content Type Usage / https://blog.kenaro.com"
    $form.ResumeLayout($false)
#endregion

$list = @{}

$treeview.add_NodeMouseDoubleClick({
    param($sender, $eventArgs)
    if($eventArgs.Node.Tag -ne $null ) {
        [System.Diagnostics.Process]::Start($eventArgs.Node.Tag)
    }
});

function analyseWeb {
    param([Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb]$web) 
    
    $web.ContentTypes | % {
        $ct = $_
        $global:list += @{"$($ct.Id)"=$ct}
    }
    
    $web.lists | % {
        $_.ContentTypes | % {
            $ct = $_
            $global:list += @{"$($ct.Id)"=$ct}
        }
    }
    
    $web.Webs | % {
        analyseWeb -web $_
    }
}

function reorder {
    param([Microsoft.SharePoint.SPContentType]$p = $null, [int]$intend, [System.Windows.Forms.TreeNode]$parentNode)
    
    if( $p -eq $null ) {
        $ct = $list["0x"]

        $tn = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TreeNode("System")
        $tn.ToolTipText = "0x"
        $parentNode.Nodes.Add($tn) | Out-Null
        
        reorder -p $ct -intend 0 -parentNode $tn
    } else {
        ($list.Values | ? {$_.Id.IsChildOf($p.Id) -and $_ -ne $p} | sort @{Expression={$_.Id.ToString().Length}}, $_.Id.ToString() ) | % {
            $ct = $_
            $type=""
            $url=""
            $tn = $null

            if( $ct.ParentList -ne $null ) {
                $type="(List) $($ct.Name) / List: $($ct.ParentList.Title) / Id: $($ct.Id.ToString())"            
                $url = $ct.parentweb.url + "/_layouts/ManageContentType.aspx?ctype=" + $ct.Id.ToString()+"&List="+$ct.ParentList.Id.ToString()
                
                #http://<domain>/sites/<web>/_layouts/ManageContentType.aspx?List=%7B111963EB%2DF504%2D49EC%2DA21B%2D814319718684%7D&ctype=0x010100644EE9F5F657474B92A2716207BB5DE2
                
                $tn = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TreeNode($type)
                $tn1 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TreeNode("_open management site")
                $tn1.Tag = $url
                $tn.Nodes.Add($tn1) | Out-Null
                
                $tn2 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TreeNode("_open list")
                $tn2.Tag = $ct.ParentWeb.Site.MakeFullUrl($ct.ParentList.DefaultViewUrl)
                $tn.Nodes.Add($tn2) | Out-Null
            }else {
                $type="(Web) $($ct.Name) / Id: $($ct.Id.ToString())"
                $url = $ct.parentweb.url + "/_layouts/ManageContentType.aspx?ctype=" + $ct.Id.ToString()
            
                #http://<domain>/sites/<web>/_layouts/ManageContentType.aspx?ctype=0x0100CF8FCF53E9FA451CB145093F830B1762
                $tn = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TreeNode($type)
                $tn1 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TreeNode("_open management site")
                $tn1.Tag = $url

                $tn.Nodes.Add($tn1) | Out-Null
                $tn2 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TreeNode("_open web")
                $tn2.Tag = $ct.ParentWeb.Url
                $tn.Nodes.Add($tn2) | Out-Null
            }

            $parentNode.Nodes.Add($tn) | Out-Null
        
            reorder -p $ct -intend ($intend+1) -parentNode $tn
        }
    }
}

if($fileName -ne $null ) { 
    Remove-Item -Path $fileName -Confirm:$false -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
}

#you can filter the processed site collections in the following line
Get-SPSite -Limit all <#| select -first 1 -Skip 10#> | % {
    $site = $_
    $tn = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TreeNode("Site: $($site.Url)")
    $treeview.Nodes.Add($tn)
    
    $rootWeb = $site.RootWeb
    
    analyseWeb -web $rootWeb
    
    reorder -parentNode $tn
    
    $rootWeb.Dispose()
    $site.Dispose()
}

$form.ShowDialog() | out-null