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Can you read a Term Set using REST?

SharePoint 2013 does not support managing term set using REST API still now. In that case, JSOM is the one and only way. If your requirement is just to read the term set, then you can follow this. ...
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SharePoint online taxonomy: nested term sets?

No, Taxonomies are built like the following: Taxonomy Group TermSet Term Term Terms however can contain subterms
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How to retrieve term set in SPFx to use in a drop down select?

The easiest way is to use the PnP Reusable Controls Taxonomy Picker. If you want to do it in the property pane, then you could also use the PnP Property Controls PropertyFieldTermPicker. Both ...
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How to migrate a site collection and the related term store toward another farm?

I successfully did it by following this blog post: Source SP Farm - Windows Azure SharePoint Server 2013 VM. Destination SP Farm - SharePoint Server 2013 VM. http://blog.kuppens-switsers.net/...
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Rest API to return all Terms and their GUID

You could just use the pnp cmdlet Get-PnPTerm to get all Terms and its GUID under specific termsets. It's very easy. Read here for more: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/sharepoint-...
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Create Term using JSOM

You may need to manually refresh the cache; if you are trying to use the term immediately after creating it then it may not have had enough time to propagate. If you are using JSOM, try adding a call ...
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How to set Termset on managed metadata field in XML?

You have to add below properties to map the column to a termset: SspId- This is the GUID of managed metadata service TermSetId- GUID of TermSet Please try below schema: <Field ID="{0AF6E300-E338-...
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How to Iterate the Terms using Termset Id in sharepoint 2013?

There are couple options you can try. You can call TermSet.GetAllTerms() method to return all terms under that TermSet. Another approach you can try is to use recursive function to enumerate ...
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How can a managed metadata field be associated with a term set with powershell?

Try it as below: Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue $WebURL="https://sitecollectionurl/" $ListName="Financial" $FieldName="Doc Type" $Web = Get-SPWeb $WebURL $...
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Export Import Term Sets with PnP

I faced a similar issue and had to use the Export-PnPTermGroupToXml to get the export of all Term Groups in the required XML format to import. You can get further details here
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get termset description sharepointOnline

To get the description, you need to use it as term.get_description(). It is available as a method and not as property unfortunately.
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Group by managed metadata column returns null for contribute users

Found the solution here - Unable to create a site column based on the Managed metadata type? My issue was resolve by granting permissions to users in the hidden Taxonomy list, which can be ...
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How to retrieve term set in SPFx to use in a drop down select?

Got a working solution: public componentWillMount() { taxonomy.getDefaultSiteCollectionTermStore() .getTermSetById('6a488843-cebc-47b7-8606-e4e165e6fceb') .terms.get().then( ...
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Rest API to return all Terms and their GUID

The rest 2.1 API supports CRUD operations on the TermStore. There is an useful write-up of accessing the terms located here: https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/blogs/sharepoint-managed-metadata-services-...
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Sharepoint - Removing Enterprise Keywords

Yes, the Enterprise Keywords will automatically add to term store but are not automatically removed when items are deleted. We need to manually deleted them in the term store management tool.
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Convert column type from Managed Metadata Term Set to Text

Your plan with adding new column, copying the values to it and deleting the old column sounds reasonable. You can update the items without changing the modified/modified by fields by using the ...
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How to show all the top used tags (terms) from sites and site collections

It’s the default behavior in SharePoint Online. Tags & Notes feature of SharePoint Online has been retired, so Tag Cloud web part in the web part gallery is still visible and enabled, but it will ...
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CSV file format to import Term sets with URL field.

I uploaded url as shown in image
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Delete Local site collection term set

The message is quite misleading. But that is not the case - Delete will only delete what is under the Term Set. This action deletes the term and its child terms. If this term is a source term that ...
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SharePoint Hosted App >> Unable to create termset

Looks like your app doesn't have permission to write data to the term store. To provide permission , go to the Appmanifest.xml file and provide write permission the Taxonomy scope. Deploy the app ...
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Is a term set equivalent to a dropdown list?

A lot has been written on this. Perhaps check out this article and post back if you have any questions about it. But a term set is like a lookup list on steroids. So yes, it allows users to pick an ...
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How to Iterate the Terms using Termset Id in sharepoint 2013?

In C# Server object model, you can try it as below: TaxonomySession taxonomySession = new TaxonomySession(site); TermStore termstore = taxonomySession.DefaultSiteCollectionTermStore; Guid ...
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Invisible termsets, visible through powershell

You need to call $termStore.CommitAll() after calling delete in order to actually delete the termset. Then again retrieve the termstore object to see the correct count of termsets as termstore uses a ...
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How to configure term set so contributors can add new terms to the set?

You'll need to specify a term set as open to users to be able to add new terms, see https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Introduction-to-managed-metadata-a180fa28-6405-4679-9ec3-81d2028c4efc In ...
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How to apply enterprise keyword on site collection only in SharePoint online

Enterprise keywords, as defined by the platform, is not a site collection specific feature. All site collections in a web application (or tenant in your case) would share the same enterprise keywords....
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Can you read a Term Set using REST?

You could build your own REST service with Web API that gets the terms using CSOM and returns JSON. Call the API from SharePoint via jQuery $.ajax. Here's an example that includes parent and child ...
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Term set meta data search doesn’t seem to work consistently

Did you create two different termsets with the same name (and terms)? If you did then the behavior is normal. Each term (and termset) has it's own unique id. Since you created 2 termsets 'recruitement'...
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How do i make lists show top navigation when using managed metadata?

Try with simple link to list (with relative url) ---Edit--- You have absolute path to list. Try with relative path to list. example of absolute path> https://SITE/Shared Documents/Forms/AllItems....
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