What is the SPE equivalent of "Revert Tree"?

Question

What is the SPE equivalent of "Revert Tree"?

I've attempted the following:

$config = [Sitecore.Configuration.Factory]::GetConfiguration();
$dataFolderPath = ($config.sitecore."sc.variable" | ?{ $_.name -eq 'dataFolder'}).Value
$serializationPath = "$dataFolderPath/serialization/master$($MyBucket.ItemPath)"

...

if(test-path "$serializationpath.item") {
    # restore the empty folder to delete children (~10,000) as a side-effect
    deserialize-item -path $serializationPath -root "$dataFolderPath/serialization/" -ForceUpdate -DisableEvents
}

. But this does not seem to do the same thing as the button. The documentation doesn't reference this use case at all. Any feedback would be appreciated.

Answer 1

deserialize-item command requires 2 parameters -

1. path - which is a path to the item on the drive but without .item extension. If the item does not exist in the Sitecore tree yet, you need to pass the parent item path.
2. root - the directory which is the root of serialization. The trailing slash \ character is required

In your case, you want to deserialize tree so -Recurse option is also required.

• You are passing both the parameter in your script but $dataFolderPath value may not have a full path from config if it is set to /app_data. Try to do a write-host for the path to make sure it is a full file path.
• try to use slash \ character in the path not /
• Make sure $serializationPath value is correct with $dataFolderPath and $MyBucket

A sample script will be like this -

//serialization item path without .item extension
$serializationPath = "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\yourwebsite\App_Data\serialization\master\sitecore\content\Global Settings\Topics"
//root file path of serialization
$rootPath = "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\yourwebsite\App_Data\serialization\"
if(test-path "$serializationpath.item") {
deserialize-item -path $serializationPath -root $rootPath -ForceUpdate -DisableEvents -Recurse
}