Programmatically creating a Rich Text Field in a SharePoint List

Sounds easy enough, but it wasn't immediately obvious.



The below creates a list, adds a Rich Text field with full HTML and adds it to the default view.

27   SPWeb oWeb = null;

28   oWeb = oSite.RootWeb;

29   Guid gList;

30   SPList oList = null;

31   gList = oWeb.Lists.Add("My List", "Some description", SPListTemplateType.GenericList);

32   oWeb.Update();

33   oList = oWeb.Lists[gList];

34   SPFieldMultiLineText oFldBody = (SPFieldMultiLineText)oList.Fields[oList.Fields.Add("Body", SPFieldType.Note, true)];

35   oFldBody.Description = "Replaceable Parameters: {password}, {userid}, {usergroups}, {usersite}, {siteadmin}";

36   oFldBody.RichText = true;

37   oFldBody.RichTextMode = SPRichTextMode.FullHtml;

38   oFldBody.Update();

39   oList.Update();

40 

41   SPView oView = oList.DefaultView;

42   SPViewFieldCollection oViewFields = oView.ViewFields;

43   oViewFields.Add(oFldBody);

44   oView.Update();