This is a two series blog in which I will try to cover lots of SharePoint TermSet Metadata operations. The idea is to achieve the following:
Export Terms to CSV
- Existing Terms along with their child Terms,
- Current Guid,
- Available for Tagging option, &
- Deprecate state.
Import Terms from CSV
- Import Terms which will create Terms only when they don’t already exist. The search will be done using the Term Name.
- Can create the Term with the given Guid. This is optional. If you don’t want to use this option, then keep this column blank and the Term will be created using a brand new Guid.
- Deprecate/Un-Deprecate an existing or a new Term. If you have to change this option on a number of pre-existing TermSets then simply update the exported CSV accordingly and then run the import script.
- Modify the availability for Tagging option. If you have to change this option on a number of pre-existing TermSets then simply update the given CSV accordingly and then run the import script.
- Most importantly, it also applies custom sorting. So the Terms and their child terms will exactly appear in the same order as has been mentioned in the processing CSV.
In this post, I’ll only be showing the export operation. The import operation has been defined here, https://realmpksharepoint.wordpress.com/2015/09/23/import-sharepoint-metadata-from-csv-along-with-their-guids-deprecate-state-and-custom-ordering/. Please note that since the generated output will be in CSV format, we’re converting any comma (,) that might be included in the Term name to “,” otherwise the format will get distorted.
Input
The script expects two parameters that needs to be set before executing it. They are:
- $termGrpNm: The name of the TermGroup whose all TermSets will be exported to CSV files respectively.
- $svLoc: File System location where all the CSVs will be dumped.
Here’s the script preview. Download link for the same has been provided in the later segment.