Summary
This chapter provides a thorough overview of the wide range of applications of metadata in SharePoint 2010 by using hands-on exercises as well as feature discussions and examples. Because of the ways that metadata is enmeshed with SharePoint 2010, administrators must “get their hands dirty” to set standards for how metadata will be used and which SharePoint 2010 metadata-related features will be used.
In this chapter, a summary of the different types of columns available from lists and libraries was provided, along with examples of how metadata is populated to documents. Exercises involving the calculated column and lookup column types were provided, and features such as validation settings and enforcing unique values in columns were ...
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