Sitecore Power shell scripts to copy renderings from Shared to Final layout.

You may end up wanting to move renderings from shared to the final layout when in a multilingual set-up, you’d want to move a rendering to only apply to a specific language.

Reasons apart, though Sitecore Power Shell has provisions to move/merge renderings from Final to the Shared layout, there’s no out-of-the box function to do the vice versa.

To do this, you may use these scripts below. There are three scripts that you may need to run to achieve this -

1. A script to get the data sources of the rendering from the existing shared layout.

2. To remove the rendering from the shared layout

3. To add rendering to the Final layout of a Specific language version with the data sources extracted by the first script.

Below are the three scripts -

Sprint 1: To get the data sources of the rendering from the existing shared layout.

[IMPORTANT] — Once the script completes, copy the results from the result window (Host) as a CSV file.

$RootItem = “/sitecore/content/MyTenant/MySiteFolder/MySite/home/ParentPageFolder” $renderingID = “{A3CEF38E-231B-4369-BF22-BB9932542862}” 
$deviceLayout = Get-LayoutDevice “Default”
$templateName = “myTemplate”
$placeHolder = “jss-main” #the place holder of the rendering
$items = Get-ChildItem -Path $RootItem -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.TemplateName -eq $templateName} -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
$templateNameWrite-Host “Item,Type,Datasource”foreach($item in $items){$renderings = Get-Rendering -Item $item -Device $deviceLayout -Placeholder $placeHolder 
foreach($rendering in $renderings){
if($rendering.ItemID -eq $renderingID){
if($rendering.DataSource){
$DSItem = Get-Item $rendering.DataSourceWrite-Host $item.Paths.FullPath,”,”,$item.TemplateName,”,”,$DSItem.Paths.FullPath }}}}

Script 2: To remove the rendering from the shared layout.

$RootItem = “/sitecore/content/MyTenant/MySiteFolder/MySite/home/ParentPageFolder” $renderingID = “{A3CEF38E-231B-4369-BF22-BB9932542862}” 
$deviceLayout = Get-LayoutDevice “Default”
$templateName = “myTemplate” 
$placeHolder = “jss-main” 
$items = Get-ChildItem -Path $RootItem -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.TemplateName -eq $templateName} -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
foreach($item in $items)
{
$renderings = Get-Rendering -Item $item -Placeholder $placeHolder
foreach($rendering in $renderings){
if($rendering.ItemID -eq $renderingID){
$item.Editing.BeginEdit();
Remove-Rendering -Item $item -Instance $rendering -Device $deviceLayout 
Write-Host $rendering.ItemID “ removed from “ $item.Paths.FullPath$item.Editing.EndEdit();}}}

Script 3: To add rendering to the Final layout of a Specific language version with the data sources extracted from the first script.

$dataFolder = [Sitecore.Configuration.Settings]::DataFolder
$tempFolder = $dataFolder + “\temp\upload”
$filePath = Receive-File -Path $tempFolder -overwrite
$deviceLayout = Get-LayoutDevice “Default”
$renderingPath = “/sitecore/layout/Renderings/Project/ProjectFolder/RenderingFolder/Rendering”
$renderingItem = Get-Item -Database “master” -Path $renderingPath | New-Rendering -Placeholder “jss-main” 
$Language = “en”
if($filePath -eq “cancel”){exit}$resultSet = Import-Csv $filePath$rowsCount = ( $resultSet | Measure-Object ).Count;if($rowsCount -le 0){Remove-Item $filePathexit}
foreach ( $row in $resultSet ) 
{
$item = Get-Item -Path $row.Item
if($item){
$item.Editing.BeginEdit();Add-Rendering -Item $item -Language $Language -PlaceHolder “jss-main” -Instance $renderingItem -Device $deviceLayout -Datasource $row.Datasource -FinalLayout
Write-Host “Added with “ $row.Datasource “ to “$item.Paths.FullPath$item.Editing.EndEdit(); }}
Remove-Item $filePath