PowerShell™ for SharePoint® 2013 How-To

Get a Specific Metadata Category

Scenario/Problem: You need to obtain a metadata category reference for use in other search cmdlets.

Solution: Use the Get-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataCategory cmdlet to assign a variable the results using the -Identity and -SearchApplication parameters.

Providing the identity of the metadata category with the Get-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataCategory cmdlet retrieves a specific metadata category for the specified search service application. Use this to assign the results to an object for use in other cmdlets, as shown in Listing 13.10.

Listing 13.10. Assigning a Variable to a Specific Metadata Category

$ssApp = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication-Identity 81aedaf7-704c-47f4-8173-5e99a7495ac3$category = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataCategory ...