Metadata on Janik von Rotz

Limitations and workarounds for managed metadata navigation for multiple site collections

Wed, 23 Apr 2014 09:53:45 +0000

With SharePoint 2013 you can create a managed metadata navigation and share it across web applications and site collections.

But there’s an ugly limitation for site collections.

SharePoint Export and Import Term Sets from Term Store

Tue, 01 Apr 2014 07:34:23 +0000

The SharePoint term store service is one of the most important parts of a SharePoint installation. It’s the best place to store an manage global metadata for your companies documents.

It’s not that hard to design a term set in Excel and import it afterwards with the built-in term store import wizard.

However there’s no tool or wizard that allows you to get a term set out of the term store.

It’s only possible with my PowerShell function (which is as always part of my PowerShell PowerUp project)

Export all Terms from Managed Metadata Service

Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:18:44 +0000

Migrating you Managed Metadata Terms to another SharePoint installation? First thing to do: Export.

This scripts exports all terms sorted by term group, term set and its level.

Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2013/Office365

Wed, 04 Sep 2013 09:33:48 +0000

The Managed Metadata feature in SharePoint 2010/2013/Office365 enables a new way to manage your documents and other company related informations.

Yet most file systems store their files in an hierarchical structure, with SharePoint and the Managed Metadata Service you can setup a document management system.

To get into this Managed Metadata Service thing, I’ve found a great video.