You play around with a technology for 13 years and it still surprises you… This issue cropped up today with a client’s installation of SharePoint 2010 Server Enterprise Edition. The scenario: A wiki site was created for capturing and sharing knowledge within a tech support team. A key requirement was the ability to quickly search [...]
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This post builds on a couple of previous ones that you may also want to refer to: SharePoint Managed Metadata Overview SharePoint Taxonomy Limits In SharePoint lists and libraries, you create columns to contain different types of data that help describe the item or document being stored in said list or library. Three in particular [...]
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In October I presented at a Records Management event in London for Unicom. The title of my presentation was SharePoint and Records Management: The Good, Bad and Ugly. The slides are embedded below. Please note they never behave as well on the web as when presented. Especially so in this case, as I decided to [...]
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SharePoint 2010 introduced managed metadata for the first time – the Managed Metadata Service (MMS). You can create a hierarchy of terms (metadata) and then use those terms to classify content stored in SharePoint. If you decide to rename a term, all items classified will be updated to reflect the new term. That’s the managed [...]
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SharePoint has always had some form of metadata capabilities. However the latest version includes the first attempt at managing metadata. This post is a brief overview of the different types of metadata and why/when to use them…
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