PowerShell : RePublish Content type

This article will brief you about how to publish content type from Content Type Hub.

Introduction

 

According to Microsoft, A content type is a reusable collection of metadata (columns), workflow, behavior, and other settings for a category of items or documents in a Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 list or document library. Content types enable you to manage the settings for a category of information in a centralized, reusable way.

Here I'm assuming that you have content type hub already setup at your end. For more information on how to setup content type hub please find this link ( http://sharepoint-community.net/profiles/blogs/understanding-content-type-hub-cth-in-sharepoint-2013 ).

 

Information :

 

Please find below is the powershell script which will help you publish the content type.  

$CTHubURL = "{<Content Type Hub Setup URL>E.g. http://mySharePointSite :1111/}"
    #Get Content Type site and web objects
    $ctHubSite = Get-SPSite $CTHubURL
    $ctHubWeb = $ctHubSite.RootWeb

    #Check the site is a content type hub
    if ([Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy.ContentTypeSync.ContentTypePublisher]::IsContentTypeSharingEnabled($ctHubSite))
    {
        #Set up ContentTypePublisher object to allow publishing through the Content Type Hub site
        $spCTPublish = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy.ContentTypeSync.ContentTypePublisher ($ctHubSite)

        #Step through each content type in the content type hub
        $ctHubWeb.ContentTypes | Sort-Object Name | ForEach-Object {

            #Has the content type been published?
            if ($spCTPublish.IsPublished($_))
            {
                #Republish content type
                $spCTPublish.Publish($_)
                write-host "Content type" $_.Name "has been republished" -foregroundcolor Green
            }
            else
            {
                write-host "Content type" $_.Name "is not a published content type"
            }
        }
    }
    else
    {
        write-host $CTHubURL "is not a content type hub site."
    }
    #Dispose of site and web objects
    $ctHubWeb.Dispose()
    $ctHubSite.Dispose()