Pnpjs: Taxonomy: Obtaining description info on terms for other languages/lcid?

[Kesudan]

Category

• [ ] Enhancement
• [ ] Bug
• [x] Question
• [ ] Documentation gap/issue

Version

Please specify what version of the library you are using: [1.2.3]

Please specify what version(s) of SharePoint you are targeting: [SPO]

Question

@pnp/sp-taxonomy query:

Having some trouble finding how to get term description information for another language/lcid.

I'm able to access other language labels successfully from a term, but as for description I cannot seem to get description data for another lcid.

Is this not supported currently, or can someone point me in the correct direction?

[patrick-rodgers]

In the docs you can see how to load terms. You can control what terms come back by using the label match information in your query.

[simonagren]

@patrick-rodgers
I believe @Kesudan wants to get the description in other lcids, not filter terms by labels :)

I don't believe there is support right now for getting the description of other LCIDs @Kesudan

On term there is an setDescription, but not a getDescription.
the term also has term.Description (default language Description).

In old servercode atleast there is two methods:
GetDescription gets the description in the default LCID
GetDescription(LCID) gets the description of the supplied LCID.

@patrick-rodgers was thinking something. But I havn't gotten it to work. Any ideas?
In terms.ts

public get getDescriptionByLcid(lcid: number): IDescription {
            return this.getChild(Term, "GetDescription", MethodParams.build()
            .number(lcid));

    }

[patrick-rodgers]

When using getTerms() and setting the LCID in the label match info not bring back all the properties for that term in that lcid? If not than I am wrong on how that works.

If there are methods missing and available we can def look at adding them.

[simonagren]

I might be wrong aswell, gonna have a quick look

[simonagren]

Yeah. Tried to have one Label named TermOne in English, and a TermEtt label in Swedish.

Different labelmatchinginfo targeting both of them still retrieves the same data.
So the term.Description is in the Default language.

[patrick-rodgers]

Ah, my bad then, I thought it worked differently. So then I guess we need to add some methods to help here.

[simonagren]

Yeah sorry I couldn't help out with any of the methods right now. Lack of time and understanding how it works :)

[patrick-rodgers]

Working on this but actually found an issue with gulp serve so that is taking a bit of time to ensure that is working (unrelated to this issue) but that's the delay.

[simonagren]

Really would like to see how you solved it later 😀👍

[patrick-rodgers]

Just created #301. If you get a chance @Kesudan please pull that code and see if the new method works for you as expected. Updated docs here

[Kesudan]

@patrick-rodgers Perfect! Yes, that works fine :) Thanks for the speedy fix!