Ah, its been a while since I’ve blogged! Its been busy to say the least. Well, I hope you find this blog post useful!
Recently I took over development from a colleague on a content migration project.
The tool is a windows application – it uploads documents in a specified location, and applies taxonomy/metadata as specified in a configuration file which an administrator has control over.
Configuration File
So while testing this, I found that although we could upload a document just fine, only the first term of the term set would be applied as metadata.
If the taxonomy data went more than one level deep, the field would be blank. This happend for all the fields that we tried to set that specific term to:
Empty Field Values
If the term was not in the 1st level, then the code would not find it.
To fix this, I needed to create a Term Collection, and use the TermStore.GetTerms(string, boolean) method to check for the term in the collection.
I can now use terms that are multiple levels deep in the term set:
Multiple Level Term Set
Setting metadata in my list now works on a multi level term set:
Column with a multi level term set value applied
For interest sake, my code looked something like this:
Taxonomy Code
Happy coding 
