.Net, SharePoint and Nintex

If you want to modify the DefaultView of a programmatically created list you have to know a “bagatelle”.

First i tried it this way:

list.DefaultView.ViewFields.Add(list.fields.GetFieldByInternalName(“internalName”);

list.DefaultView.Update();

and nothing happened at all.

The reason lies in the property DefaultView which encapsulates a behavior in which in every call the View is instantiated again. So in the first line you would modifiy the first instance of the view. Than, you would update a new instance of the View, which is not modified or updated.

So, knowing this, what you have to do to make it working is the following:

Get the Instance, modifiy it, and safe it.

SPView view = list.DefaultView;

if(view.ViewFields.Exists("internalName")==false)
   view.ViewFields.Add(list.Fields.GetFieldByInternalName("internalName"));

view.Update();