TermStore.GetTermsWithCustomProperty Method (String, String, StringMatchOption, Boolean)

Gets a collection of all Term objects, from all TermSet objects in this TermStore that the current user has permissions to read, that have a custom property starting with or matching the provided property name and the provided property value.

Namespace:  Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy
Assembly:  Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy (in Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Function GetTermsWithCustomProperty ( _
    customPropertyName As String, _
    customPropertyValue As String, _
    stringMatchOption As StringMatchOption, _
    trimUnavailable As Boolean _
) As TermCollection
'Usage
Dim instance As TermStore
Dim customPropertyName As String
Dim customPropertyValue As String
Dim stringMatchOption As StringMatchOption
Dim trimUnavailable As Boolean
Dim returnValue As TermCollection

returnValue = instance.GetTermsWithCustomProperty(customPropertyName, _
    customPropertyValue, stringMatchOption, _
    trimUnavailable)

public TermCollection GetTermsWithCustomProperty(
    string customPropertyName,
    string customPropertyValue,
    StringMatchOption stringMatchOption,
    bool trimUnavailable
)

Parameters

• customPropertyName
  Type: System.String

  The custom property name

• customPropertyValue
  Type: System.String

  The custom property value

• stringMatchOption
  Type: Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy.StringMatchOption

  Indicates whether to search for custom property names and values that start with the specified strings, or search for those that exactly match the specified strings.

• trimUnavailable
  Type: System.Boolean

  A Boolean indicating whether to trim out terms that have Term.IsAvailableForTagging set to false.

Return Value

Type: Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy.TermCollection
A collection of all Term objects, from all TermSets in this TermStore that the current user has permissions to read, that have a custom property starting with or matching the provided property name and the provided property value.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
ArgumentNullException	The customPropertyName cannot be null or empty.
ArgumentException	The value of customPropertyName is invalid. It probably contains invalid characters or is too long.
ArgumentNullException	The customPropertyValue cannot be null or empty.
ArgumentException	The value of customPropertyValue is invalid. It exceeds the maximum allowed length 255.
ArgumentException	The value of customPropertyValue is invalid. It contains invalid character '\t', '\n'. or both.

Remarks

If trimUnavailable is true then terms that have Term.IsAvailableForTagging set to false will be trimmed from the results; otherwise all matching terms will be returned regardless of their Term.IsAvailableForTagging value.

The customPropertyName cannot be a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) or empty, and must not exceed 255 characters in length. It also cannot contain any of the following illegal characters ;"<>|&tab

The customPropertyValue cannot be a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) or empty, and must not exceed 255 characters in length. It also cannot contain any of the illegal characters \t or \n.

The search is case-insensitive. A maximum of 100 results will be returned from this search. To get the most accurate results it is recommended that any pending changes be committed to the database using CommitAll() before executing this search.

See Also

Reference

TermStore Class

TermStore Members

GetTermsWithCustomProperty Overload

Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy Namespace

CustomProperties

GetTermsWithCustomProperty(String, Boolean)

GetTermsWithCustomProperty(String, Int32, Boolean)

GetTermsWithCustomProperty(String, String, StringMatchOption, Int32, Boolean)

GetTermsWithCustomProperty(String, String, Boolean)