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Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures is "data about the containers of data".

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How is metadata stored?

I apologize for the simple question but have been curious about this and haven't found an answer elsewhere. Does SharePoint actually append the file itself with the metadata added in SharePoint, or is this simply associated data stored in SharePoint…
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Confidentiality tagging - best approach

We currently run a very large Sharepoint 2010 collaboration platform for our company (50,000 employees +), and we've come to the point where we need to help support our security team in letting employees "tag" their documents. We have a few default…
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Is an iPhone a good analogy for SharePoint Metadata?

Is using an iPhone a good example for an analogy for SharePoint's Metadata? I was thinking an iPhone is comprised of a camera, music, phone, and maps. But after thinking about it I doubt I can use it. After all, these are "functions" that make up…
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Multi-value metadata columns not saving

After using the content and structure system to copy documents from one site's document library to another, the document properties fields that are set to accept multiple metadata values from our taxonomy are no longer accepting these values (either…
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Does InfoPath still not support Managed Metadata?

I've heard that InfoPath 2010 does not support Managed MetaData. Is this still true ? Does anyone have a workaround for this ? Like using webservices to use the Managed Metadata ? Cheers, Andre
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add documents through drag and drop

When uploading a document to a document library, if you drag and drop it doesn't ask for any meta data and gets checked out to the logged in user. Any suggestion to make users enter metadata through drag and drop?
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PDF metadata not captured when file is saved sharepoint application

I have a document library in sharepoint site and it contain pdf documents. Documents has 10 metadata including document number. Document number is auto generate unique ID for each file. When i save the pdf in my local I see that pdf does not capture…
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How to use SharePoint for storing documents with bibliographic information?

For researchers, it is important to have the bibliographic information (Author, Year, Title, Journal or source name, publisher, original URL, etc.) for a document, paper or information in general. There are other tools which make managing, storing…
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Taxonomyinternalservice.json

I am having a list which fetches the metadata termsets. But it is taking very long time to get the results. I have checked this in Fiddler and it is the following line of code is taking more time. Please let me know how do I fix this.…
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Autocomplete lookup

I have a question regarding metadata. Let's say I am the administrator of a soccer team, where new players come in (and "old" players go out) every other week. If I have documents in my library containing "Players" (as, for instance, metadata-tags)…
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Force user to set metadata when publishing a site page

Using Sharepoint Online with modern pages. I've created a required custom metadata field, which I can see in the library is not set for any site page (I'm not saving documents in this site, just pages). When I edit and publish a site page, I'm not…
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What does Meta stand for in SharePoint 2013?

What does the term "Meta" stand for in reference to Meta Data within SharePoint 13?
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how to get file name and file details while uploading document

I have question related to Metadata, how to get file details and assign the meta data fields like Title, Year and month of Document while uploading. by using calculated fields or any how. i tried using (created) field in calculated field. but its…
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Conditional metadata

Is it possible to set conditional metadata for a document? For instance, there are three metadatafields in my document: accountnumber, projectnumber and casenumber. A user can fill all three metadatafields but is required to fill at least one.
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Automatic metadata capture

In SharePoint 2010, can I automatically capture the file properties of office document in document library or list? For example, when I'm uploading a excel sheet into document library, the values like Date created, modified, author etc should be…
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