Site-Level vs. Tenant-level Term Sets
When you create a Managed Metadata column, you have to point the column to a term set within a Term Store. As I documented in one of my previous posts,…
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Lookup column vs. Managed Metadata column
With the recent user experience improvements for the Lookup column, I got a great question from one of my clients the other day. The question is this: what makes the…
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How to create site level term sets in SharePoint Online
If you are a fan of metadata, I am sure you heard about the Term Store. I blogged quite a bit about it and its wonderful features. However, to utilize…
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How to access the Term Store from a SharePoint Site
If you are the Site Owner and would like to utilize Managed Metadata, you need to access the global Term Store that is typically maintained by the IT department and…
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How to rename metadata tags
This happens quite often – you have been using the metadata tags/labels for a while and now need to rename a few or change spelling or something. It sounds like…
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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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Managed Metadata vs. Managed Properties
This post will not be an instructional post like many of my other articles on my blog. Instead, it will try to clarify some SharePoint terminology that sounds similar yet…
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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 properly delete and hide managed metadata terms in the Term Store
If you use Term Store to manage metadata (and I hope you do), it is inevitable that at some point, you will end up with large hierarchies of tags within…
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SharePoint Term Store: Copy Term Set vs. Reuse Terms vs. Pin Term with Children
If you have been following my blog, you know by now that I am a huge advocate of metadata. And if metadata is defined within the Term Store – oh…
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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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