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How to create a new term for the term set 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

In this blog you will see how to create a new term named “New Term” for the term set named “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");
 
            // String variable - new term name
            string termName="New Term";
 
            // Int variable - new term lcid
            int lcid =1033;
 
            // Guid - new term guid
            Guid newTermId=Guid.NewGuid();
 
            // Create a new term
            Term newTerm = termSet.CreateTerm(termName, lcid, newTermId);           
 
            // Execute the query to the server
            clientContext.ExecuteQuery();           
        }
    }
}
 

Output: A new term named "New Term" will be created for the term set BCS.

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