How to create topic for discussion board in sharepoint using powershell

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In this article we can able to see how we can create a new topic for a discussion board list using PowerShell.

#get the site URL

$web=Get-SPweb http://dotnetsharepoint.com/sites/SharePoint/SharePoint2013

#get the List name

$list=$web.Lists["ListName"]

#Check weather the list is availbale or not

if($list -ne $null)

{

#Creating a new discussion

$newTopic = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SPUtility]::CreateNewDiscussion($list, "Welcome to DotnetSharePoint");

$newTopic["Body"] = "We hope our site is very usefull to learn new things!";

$newTopic.Update();

Write-Host $newTopic.Title " discussion board topic is created successfully"

}

else

{

Write-Host "List does not exists!"

}

Output:

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