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I am curious to know if it is possible to export Sitecore master db using PowerShell to a csv or to PowerBI?

I am exploring possibility to get information for a given UI component (e.g. “large hero”) which pages on the Sitecore platform across all tenants host this component?

E.g. Large Hero is hosted only on /membership page

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Since you already know the specific component that you want to find references for, you can use the Get-ItemReferrer commandlet.

For example:

$references = Get-ItemReferrer -Path master:\layout\Renderings\Feature\Teasers\MyComponent
$references | Show-ListView 

This will return all reference to the component, including any __Standard Values of templates that you may have the rendering added to.

Internally this uses the Links database so will be much faster than crawling the entire content tree.

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  • What if I dont know the location of the item but I have the templateID?
    – Heng Yon
    May 29, 2018 at 5:06
  • Read the documentation I linked to, you can pass an Id parameter, e.g. Get-ItemReferrer -Id <String>
    – jammykam
    May 29, 2018 at 12:57
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You could install Sitecore PowerShell Extensions module and then use this PowerShell script to get list of renderings used on pages:

write-host 'Running script...'
Set-Location master:\content
$pages = get-item master:\content\home | get-childitem -Recurse
$device = Get-LayoutDevice -Default
$Results = @();
$DataPath = "C:\MySite\ComponentsInUse.csv"

foreach($page in $pages){

    $renderings = Get-Rendering -Item $page -Device $device -FinalLayout

    foreach($rendering in $renderings){

        if($rendering.ItemID -ne $null)
        {
            $renderingItem = Get-Item master: -ID $rendering.ItemID
            if($renderingItem -ne $null)
            {
                $Properties = @{
                    RenderingItemName = $renderingItem.Name
                    RenderingItemID = $renderingItem.ID
                    RenderingItemPath = $renderingItem.Paths.Path
                    UsedOnPage = $page.Name
                    UsedOnPageID = $page.ID
                    UsedOnPagePath = $page.Paths.Path
                }

                $Results += New-Object psobject -Property $Properties
            }
        }

    }
}

$Results | Select-Object RenderingItemName,RenderingItemID,RenderingItemPath,UsedOnPage,UsedOnPageID,UsedOnPagePath | Export-Csv -notypeinformation -Path $DataPath

write-host 'Script ended' 

Script was inspired from this page so please take a look there for further references and examples. I have changed it to suit your needs.

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