TaxonomyFieldCreationOptions has hard-coded AnchorId

[chiefmillso]

Category

• Feature Request / Domain Model

Describe the domain model extension

Currently the TaxonomyFieldCreation approach has a hard-coded approach to setting the AnchorId for the TaxonomyField. The standard approach of modifying the Field.AnchorId after creation is not supported due to the property not existing on the underlying field type.

This does not allow setting constrained terms for a given field definition and requires do all the hard work through field xml.

Model

Model: Field
Properties: AnchorId

The creation classes are:
Public > FieldTaxonomyOptions
Internal > TaxonomyFieldCreationOptions

Additional Information

Affected tests - ProvisionTaxonomyFieldRequestTests.cs

I would recommend making the ProvisionTaxonomyFieldRequest constructor take an optional (default null) parameter supporting setting the anchorid (Guid? anchorId = null) for backwards compatbility.

[chiefmillso]

@jansenbe - I never heard back regarding this issue. I have a simple code fix with tests I can submit as a PR.