SharePoint® 2010 Administration: Instant Reference

Create Metadata Property Mappings

One of SharePoint’s strongest features is the ability to associate metadata (properties) with documents, images, and list items in order to organize the information for a business. Business users use this metadata to sort and filter large numbers of items into more meaningful subsets. Search takes advantage of the same metadata to locate and return relevant results. All metadata attributes found either on a document (as embedded attributes) or associated with an item (as a custom column in the list or library) are indexed by SharePoint. All metadata values are used by SharePoint when it performs a search query. Thus, results will be returned where the keyword was found in a property rather than the text of the ...