Automation: Create a Social Tag in
SharePoint 2010 using PowerShell
A Social Tag can be created for any specified URL with a valid term using the SocialTagManager object. SocialTagManager object contains methods and properties
that are used to manipulate social tag data.
Steps Involved:
- Create the input xml file which contains
the inputs for creating social tag.
- Create a ps1 file which contains the script
for creating social tag.
CreateSocialTag.xml
<?xml
version="1.0"
encoding="utf-8"
?>
<SocialTag>
<SiteURL>
https://serverName.com/Finance/Finance/</SiteURL>
<Uri>https://serverName.com/Finance/Finance/</Uri>
<TermName>Sample
Tag</TermName
>
</SocialTag>
CreateSocialTag.ps1
## -------------------------------------------------------------------
## Powershell script for creating Social Tag
## Note : Need to update the XML file path before running the script.
## Author : Vijai Anand Ramalingam
## Date : 28-Oct-2011
## -------------------------------------------------------------------
#----------------Get the xml
file---------------------------------------------------------------
[xml]$xmlData=Get-Content
"D:\VijaiPOC\CreateSocialTag.xml"
#----------------Create Social Tag
function----------------------------------------------------
function
CreateSocialTag()
{
$uri
=
New-Object
System.Uri($xmlData.SocialTag.Uri);
$site
=
Get-SPSite
$xmlData.SocialTag.SiteURL
## Get the context of the service application
$context
=
Get-SPServiceContext($site)
## SocialTagManager - Contains methods and properties used to manipulate social
tag data
$socialTagManager
=
New-Object
-TypeName
Microsoft.Office.Server.SocialData.SocialTagManager
-ArgumentList
$context
## Retrieve the taxonomy session from the SocialTagManager.
$taxSession
=
$socialTagManager.TaxonomySession
$termStore
=
$taxSession.DefaultKeywordsTermStore
$term
=
$termStore.KeywordsTermSet.CreateTerm($xmlData.SocialTag.TermName,
$termStore.DefaultLanguage)
$termStore.CommitAll()
## Creates a SocialTag object with the specified Uri, Term, String and Boolean.
## $term - Term object
## $site.RootWeb.Title - Title of the web page whose URL is being tagged
## $true - A Boolean value indicating whether the social tag is private. If it
is not private, the tag will be visible to users other than the owner.
$socialTagManager.AddTag($uri,
$term,
$site.RootWeb.Title,$true);
## Dispose the site object
$site.Dispose()
}
#----------------Calling the
function------------------------------------------------------------
CreateSocialTag
Run the Script:
- Go to Start.
- Click on All Programs.
- Click on Microsoft SharePoint 2010
Products and then click on SharePoint 2010 Management Shell (run as
Administrator).
- Run the
D:\VijaiPOC\CreateSocialTag.ps1
Newly created social tag:
- Open Central Administration by going Start
| All Programs | Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products | SharePoint 2010
Central Administration.
- Click on Manage Service Application which
is available in Application Management section.
Figure : Application Management section in SharePoint 2010
- Click on User Profile Service Application.
- Click on Manage Social Tags and Notes
which is available in "My Site Settings" section.
- Select Tags from the Type dropdown and
enter the URL and Tag/Note contains value.
- Click on Find.
- You could be able to see the Social Tag
that we have created using Powershell.
Thus in this article we have seen how to create
social tag using powershell in SharePoint 2010.