How to create a copy of the term within the termset using Client Side Object Model in SharePoint 2013



Navigate to the Central Administration. Click on Application Management. Click on Manage service applications which is available under Service Applications. Click on MMS (Managed Metadata Service). Expand MMS termstore in the Taxonomy Term Store where all the groups for that particular termstore will be displayed. I have a group called “SP2013” which has the following term sets and terms

Ø  Apps

Ø  BCS

Ø  External Content Type

Ø  External Data Column

Ø  External List

Ø  MMS

Ø  WAS

When you select the term and then click on down arrow you can find an option called “Copy Term”. A copy of the term will be created for the term set.

Ø  Apps

Ø  BCS

Ø  External Content Type

Ø  External Data Column

Ø  External List

Ø  Copy of External List

Ø  MMS

Ø  WAS 

 In this blog you will see how to create a copy of the term External List for the termset BCS.

Steps Involved:

1.       Open Visual Studio 2012 (Run as administrator).

2.       Go to File=> New => Project.

3.       Select Console Application in the Visual C# node from the installed templates.

4.       Enter the Name and click on Ok.

5.       In the solution explorer, right click on References folder and then click on Add Reference.

6.       Add the following assemblies from 15 hive (C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\ISAPI).

a.       Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll

b.      Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll

c.       Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Taxonomy.dll

7.       Open Program.cs file and replace the code with the following

using System; 

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Threading.Tasks;

using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;

using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Taxonomy;

using System.Collections.ObjectModel;

 

namespace ManagedMetadataClient

{

    class Program

    {

        static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            // ClienContext - Get the context for the SharePoint Site

            // SharePoint site URL - http://c4968397007/

            ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext("http://c4968397007/");

 

            // Get the TaxonomySession

            TaxonomySession taxonomySession = TaxonomySession.GetTaxonomySession(clientContext);

 

            // Get the term store by Name

            TermStore termStore = taxonomySession.TermStores.GetByName("MMS");           

 

            // Get the term group by Name

            TermGroup termGroup = termStore.Groups.GetByName("SP2013");

 

            // Get the term set by Name

            TermSet termSet = termGroup.TermSets.GetByName("BCS");          

 

            // Get the term by Name

            Term term = termSet.Terms.GetByName("External List");

     

            // Make a copy of the term within the termset

            // Need to pass a bool parameter - whether to copy the child terms or not

            term.Copy(false);

 

            // Execute the query to the server

            clientContext.ExecuteQuery();          

        }

    }

}


Output: Copy of External List term will be created for the term set BCS.

[Note:
Site Collection http://c4968397007/ is associated with MMS service application].
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