3 security roles of a SharePoint Term Store
I blogged extensively in the past about how security and permissions work on SharePoint sites. The topic of security is always on the mind of the users and never gets…
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How to create a Managed Property in SharePoint Online
In one of my earlier posts, I introduced you to the world of Crawled and Managed Properties. As stated in that article, crawled properties are created automatically in SharePoint once…
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Automatically created Managed Properties in SharePoint Online
A while back, I introduced you to the wonderful and mysterious world of crawled and managed properties. I also briefly explained how to create a custom mapping between a crawled…
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How to make the Content Types available on all SharePoint Sites via the Content Type Gallery
If you are a big fan of metadata, like me, I am sure you are also familiar with a functionality called Content Type. Content Types allow you to organize your…
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Crawled vs. Managed Properties in SharePoint Online
Today I want to talk about a topic that is a bit more technical and advanced than my usual posts. I want to explain to you Crawled vs. Managed Properties…
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How to manage categories of news using custom metadata
One of the most popular web parts in SharePoint has got to be News Web Part. I love it so much myself, I blogged quite a few times about it…
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How to combine Filtered and Keyword search in a SharePoint Document Library
In case you are using metadata in place of folders in your document library – Mazel Tov! This means you have additional means to sort, group, and filter your documents.…
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How to create an accordion-style FAQ in SharePoint
One of the most common features requested for SharePoint intranet sites is the ability to incorporate some kind of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). There are many ways to accomplish this…
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3 ways to display Related Documents in SharePoint
As companies embrace the power of SharePoint document management, I see many users warming up to the idea of metadata (which brings a smile to my face as this is…
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How to create a Calculated Column in a SharePoint list or library
Metadata is, by far, my favorite feature in SharePoint. In the past, I wrote numerous posts on different types of metadata columns you can create (choice, term store, text, etc.)…
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I’m Greg Zelfond, a U.S. based SharePoint consultant, and I provide affordable out-of-the-box SharePoint consulting, training, and configuration assistance to small and medium-sized businesses all over the world.
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