Add-ItemVersion

Creates a version of the item in a new language based on an existing language version.

Syntax

Add-ItemVersion [-Item] <Item> [-Recurse] [-IfExist <Append | Skip | OverwriteLatest>] [-TargetLanguage <String[]>] [-DoNotCopyFields] [-IgnoredFields <String[]>] [-Language <String[]>]

Add-ItemVersion [-Path] <String> [-Recurse] [-IfExist <Append | Skip | OverwriteLatest>] [-TargetLanguage <String[]>] [-DoNotCopyFields] [-IgnoredFields <String[]>] [-Language <String[]>]

Add-ItemVersion -Id <String> [-Database <String>] [-Recurse] [-IfExist <Append | Skip | OverwriteLatest>] [-TargetLanguage <String[]>] [-DoNotCopyFields] [-IgnoredFields <String[]>] [-Language <String[]>]

Detailed Description

Creates a new version of the item in a specified language based on an existing language/version. Based on parameters you can make the command bahave differently when a version in the target language already exists and define which fields if any should be copied over from the original language.

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Aliases

The following abbreviations are aliases for this cmdlet:

• Add-ItemLanguage

Parameters

-Recurse <SwitchParameter>

Process the item and all of its children.

Aliases
Required?	false
Position?	named
Default Value
Accept Pipeline Input?	false
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

-IfExist <ActionIfExists>

Default value is Append. Accepts one of 3 values:

• Append - [Default] if language version exists create a new version with values copied from the original language

• Skip - if language version exists don't do anything

• OverwriteLatest - if language version exists overwrite the last version with values copied from the original language

Aliases
Required?	false
Position?	named
Default Value
Accept Pipeline Input?	false
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

-IfNoSourceVersion <ActionIfNoVersion>

Default value is Skip. Accepts one of 2 values:

• Skip - [Default] if the source item has no versions don't do anything

• Add - if the source item has no versions create a version without any copied values

Aliases
Required?	false
Position?	named
Default Value
Accept Pipeline Input?	false
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

-TargetLanguage <String[]>

Language or a list of languages that should be created

Aliases
Required?	false
Position?	named
Default Value
Accept Pipeline Input?	false
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

-DoNotCopyFields <SwitchParameter>

Creates a new version in the target language but does not copy field values from the original language

Aliases
Required?	false
Position?	named
Default Value
Accept Pipeline Input?	false
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

-IgnoredFields <String[]>

List of fields that should not be copied over from original item. As an example, use "__Security" if you don't want the new version to have the same restrictions as the original version.

In addition to the fields in -IgnoredFields the following fields are ignored as configured in Spe.config file in the following location: configuration/sitecore/powershell/translation/ignoredFields.

Fields ignored out of the box include:

• __Archive date

• __Archive Version date

• __Lock

• __Owner

• __Page Level Test Set Definition

• __Reminder date

• __Reminder recipients

• __Reminder text

Aliases
Required?	false
Position?	named
Default Value
Accept Pipeline Input?	false
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

-Language <String[]>

Language that will be used as source language. If not specified the current user language will be used.

Aliases
Required?	false
Position?	named
Default Value
Accept Pipeline Input?	false
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

-Item <Item>

The item / version to be processed.

Aliases
Required?	true
Position?	1
Default Value
Accept Pipeline Input?	true (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

-Path <String>

Path to the item to be processed - additionally specify Language parameter to fetch different item language than the current user language.

Aliases
Required?	true
Position?	1
Default Value
Accept Pipeline Input?	false
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

-Id <String>

Id of the item to be processed - additionally specify Language parameter to fetch different item language than the current user language.

Aliases
Required?	true
Position?	named
Default Value
Accept Pipeline Input?	false
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

-Database <String>

Database containing the item to be processed - can work with Language parameter to narrow the publication scope.

Aliases
Required?	false
Position?	named
Default Value
Accept Pipeline Input?	false
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

Inputs

The input type is the type of the objects that you can pipe to the cmdlet.

• Sitecore.Data.Items.Item

Outputs

The output type is the type of the objects that the cmdlet emits.

• Sitecore.Data.Items.Item

Notes

Help Author: Adam Najmanowicz, Michael West

Examples

EXAMPLE 1

Translate the Home Item from English to US and Polish leaving the "Title" field blank. If a version exists don't do anything

PS master:\> Add-ItemVersion -Path "master:\content\home" -Language "en" -TargetLanguage "pl-pl", "en-us" -IfExist Skip -IgnoredFields "Title"

EXAMPLE 2

Add a Japanese version to /sitecore/content/home item in the master database based on itself
PS master:\> Add-ItemVersion -Path "master:\content\home" -Language ja-JP -IfExist Append

EXAMPLE 3

Translate the children of Home item (but only those of Template Name "Sample Item") from English to US and Polish. If a version exists create a new version for that language. Display results in a table listing item name, language and created version number.

Get-ChildItem "master:\content\home" -Language "en" -Recurse | `
    Where-Object { $_.TemplateName -eq "Sample Item" } | `
    Add-ItemVersion -TargetLanguage "pl-pl" -IfExist Append | `
    Format-Table Name, Language, Version -auto

Related Topics

• https://github.com/SitecorePowerShell/Console/

• Remove-ItemVersion

• New-Item

• https://gist.github.com/AdamNaj/b36ea095e3668c22c07e