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Configuration of MetaData Control in SharePoint

Configuration of MetaData Control

Step 1 : Click on ‘Site Contents’.

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Step 2 : Click on ‘add an app’.

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Step 3 : Click on ‘Custom List’.

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Step 4: A pop-up appears, Enter the name of the Custom List and click on ‘Create’ button .

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Step 5: The created customList can be seen as shown in the figure 5 . Click on it to open.

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Step 6:Click on the ‘List’ tab and then click on ‘Create Column’ icon .

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Step 7 : a pop-up appears , enter the column name and choose ‘Managed Meta-data’ as the type of information.

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Step 8 :Check the ‘Allow multiple Values’ check-box to allow more than one value in column.

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Step 9 : Choose ‘Use a managed term set’ to use predefined Term set . Some of the predefined term sets are shown in the figure 9 under the heading ‘Managed Meta-data Service’. or we can choose ‘Customize your term set’ as shown in figure 10 .

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Step 10: Right click on ‘SampleMetadata’ icon and click ‘Create Term’ to create term .

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Created Terms are seen in the figure 12

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For each Parent Term we can create Child Term by right clicking on that Term and click on ‘Create Term’ option . In the same way you can Delete and Move Term .

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Step 11 :Select the Term to be displayed and click ‘Ok’ button.

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Step 12 : Click on ‘ClaySys AppForm’ icon .

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Step 13:  Click on ‘Manage ListForms’ .

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Step 14:  As shown in the figure 16 , we can see the form containing the created meta-data control.

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