Managed Metadata Configuration and Association
Introduction Managed Metadata is a hierarchical collection of terms that can be associated with items in SharePoint 2010. We can use Central Administration website to manage these terms. This is a new feature in SharePoint 2010. Example : You have a document library to upload articles. For each item you can specify a column metadata of category like C#, ASP.NET etc. The Purpose So you might be wondering that there exist list columns for the same purpose. Following are some advantages provided by Managed Metadata: Term Sets can be shared across a site collection or globally Searching using Metadata gives more relevant result Some Concepts inside Managed Metadata Term : A term is keyword that can be associated with a SharePoint item. Term Set : A term set is a group of terms. You can restrict that a particular item should contain a term from a particular term set. For example: setting the category of an article item from term set [C#, ASP.N...