Managed Metadata
The Managed Metadata service has been a mainstay of SharePoint for quite some time. At its core, Managed Metadata provides a way to centrally define and reuse sets of terms that can be applied to content as tags or property values. Since the repository of terms can be used consistently across multiple sites, it provides a great way to implement a standard organizational taxonomy.
While site columns create placeholders for values and content types group them together, Managed Metadata is where the reusable values themselves reside. Let’s review the components that come together to make managed metadata possible. The following diagram shows the objects in the term store and how they relate together:
Figure 8.8 – A view of objects and their relationships inside the term store
Let’s expand these objects and explore a bit more detail about how they work. In SPO, the experience of managing and using terms has gone through...