Create a new group for the term store 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. In this blog you will see how to create a new group for the term store.

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");

 

            // Create a new guid for group

            Guid guid=Guid.NewGuid();

 

            // Create a new group

            TermGroup termGroup=termStore.CreateGroup("NewGroup",guid);

 

            // Commit all the changes

            termStore.CommitAll();

 

            // Execute the query to the server

            clientContext.ExecuteQuery();           

        }

    }

}



Output: A new group named "NewGroup" will be created for the term store MMS.

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