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Adding Managed Metadata Fields to SharePoint Publishing Pages

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The Managed Metadata functionality provided by SharePoint 2010 allows you to centrally manage metadata and keywords. In a previous post I covered how to provision a SharePoint 2010 managed metadata field and add this to a content type and a list definition. In this post I will cover how to add these types of fields to a publishing page layout so that content authors can add metadata and keywords to webpages they create using these layouts.

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If there are a large number of content pages this type of tagging can help users find information as these columns can be used… Continue reading Adding Managed Metadata Fields to SharePoint Publishing Pages »

Written by Ari Bakker

September 28th, 2011 at 1:07 pm

MOSS Site Templates Not Compatible With WSS

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Something that I wasn’t aware of until now is the fact that if you save a site template in MOSS 2007 it will not work in WSS 3.0. Continue reading MOSS Site Templates Not Compatible With WSS »

Written by Ari Bakker

May 29th, 2007 at 10:46 am

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Increasing the maximum size of list templates

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Saving a list as a template is an easy way of transferring data from one place to another in SharePoint. By default, however, the maximum size of list templates in WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 is 10MB. Continue reading Increasing the maximum size of list templates »

Written by Ari Bakker

May 23rd, 2007 at 10:10 pm