O365 - Configure Tagging on Managed Metadata Terms using CSOM in PowerShell
The sixth post in a series of blog posts that walk through the process of performing configuration tasks against the Managed Metadata Term Store in O365 using CSOM in PowerShell. These posts will explain how to use a CSV file to provide the input values for the scripts however the logic within the scripts can be used to perform the same tasks without using a CSV file with minimal effort.
The example PowerShell script below can be used to configure the “Available for Tagging” property of Terms in SharePoint Online. The script assumes you will use a CSV file to provide the names of the Terms within the Term Set that need to be configured for tagging. This example enables the terms for tagging by setting the “IsAvailableForTagging” property of terms to $True however, the same script can be used to disable tagging for terms by simply changing this value within the script to $False.
It requires five variables to be updated - $User which is the tenant admin, $TenantURL which is the URL for the SharePoint Admin Center, $Site which is a valid URL of any SharePoint Site Collection that exists within the tenant, $GroupName which is the name of the Term Group you wish to connect to and $TermSetName which is the name of the Term Set for which you wish to configure tagging of terms.
$User = "<Tenant Admin>"
$TenantURL = "<URL of SharePoint Admin Center>"
$Site = "<URL of Site Collection that exists in the tenant>"
$GroupName = "<Term Group Name that contains the target Term Set>"
$TermSetName = "<Target Term Set Name>"
#Add references to SharePoint client assemblies and authenticate to Office 365 site - required for CSOM
Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll"
Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll"
Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Taxonomy.dll"
$Password = Read-Host -Prompt "Please enter your password" -AsSecureString
try
{
#Bind to the Managed Metadata Service within the target instance of SPO
$Context = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($Site)
$Creds = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($User,$Password)
$Context.Credentials = $Creds
$MMS = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Taxonomy.TaxonomySession]::GetTaxonomySession($Context)
$Context.Load($MMS)
$Context.ExecuteQuery()
#Retrieve all of the Term Stores from the Managed Metadata Service
$TermStores = $MMS.TermStores
$Context.Load($TermStores)
$Context.ExecuteQuery()
#Bind to the Term Store you want to perform configurations against
$TermStore = $TermStores[0]
$Context.Load($TermStore)
$Context.ExecuteQuery()
#Bind to the Term Group you want to perform configurations against
$Group = $TermStore.Groups.GetByName($GroupName)
$Context.Load($Group)
$Context.ExecuteQuery()
#Bind to Term Set you want to perform configurations against
$TermSet = $Group.TermSets.GetByName($TermSetName)
$Context.Load($TermSet)
$Context.ExecuteQuery()
#Specify path to CSV input file that contains;
#The names of the Terms within the Term Set that you want to enable tagging on
$path = "<Specify path to CSV file>"
#Import and load the CSV input file into the PowerShell Session
$csv = import-csv -path $path
#Process entries in the CSV
foreach($line in $csv){
#Bind to Terms within the Term Set by using the values supplied in the "TermNames" column of the CSV file
$Terms = $TermSet.Terms.GetByName($line.TermNames)
$Context.Load($Terms)
$Context.ExecuteQuery()
Foreach ($Term in $Terms)
{
#Set the "Available for Tagging" property value to True and thus enable tagging on the Term.
#Note, this value can be set to $False to disable tagging for the Term should that be required.
$A = $Term
$Term.IsAvailableForTagging = $True
$context.ExecuteQuery()
}
}
}
catch
{
write-host "Caught an exception:" -ForegroundColor Red
write-host "Exception Type: $($_.Exception.GetType().FullName)" -ForegroundColor Red
write-host "Exception Message: $($_.Exception.Message)" -ForegroundColor Red
}
finally
{
write-host ""
write-host "Tagging has been successfully enabled on the Terms within the Term Set" -ForegroundColor Green
}