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Is an iPhone a good analogy for SharePoint Metadata?
When I try to explain metadata in a SharePoint context I turn my head to a simple document. A document have content as in what's written within the document.
But metadata is all around the document
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Sharepoint metadata URL
You can use the SharePoint REST API for files and folders to get the metadata (or content) of the file.
For your example, the server-relative endpoint URL would be:
The file with basic metadata:
/...
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Office 365 New Library Experience and Metadata Navigation
Managed metadata navigation is only available in the classic mode experience. If that is necessary, revert your library in the Advanced Settings to classic mode.
Features available only in classic ...
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Can not edit display name of list column
I found a way to fix this. My code, and others provided here, do not work. The schema xml has to be edited, i.e. like this:
$w = get-spweb "http://pub.pdogs.local"
$l = $w.Lists["Simple List"]
$f = $...
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Display Common Metadata Tags as Webpart
Haven't done this, but the way I would do it is to make a query to search (f.e. using REST) and ask to return tags as refiners (create a refinable managed property, if it's not there yet). Refiners ...
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add documents through drag and drop
Apply metadata to documents when drag and drop a file. There is a bit of hardcoding, but here is what I did and it seems to be working. I am still testing this. If you have a way to get the current ...
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DateTime.Now in KQL
With KQL it is only possible to query by day ranges. If you want to use something like DateTime.Now you will have to use FQL instead, see link
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Copy document to document library in another site with meta-data
Some pieces of answers:
You canno't use that code to copy to another farm: this uses server-side API, and server-side API must be used on a server of the farm you're targetting. An option to push ...
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What does Meta stand for in SharePoint 2013?
Meta-Data:- It means data about data. Or more precisely more information about some 'information '.
In context of SharePoint (whether it's 2013) , in general it is information attached to elements. ...
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Is an iPhone a good analogy for SharePoint Metadata?
When I try to explain metadata to my clients, I usually reference Amazon.com example. I show them a typical Amazon site page and show them an ability to search for say, shoes. The I show them ...
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Multiple Managed Metadata Services
When you create the second MMS2, avoid adding it to the default proxy group. If you do, all web apps will have two MMSs, which should be avoided.
My guess is that's what happened in your environment.
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REST API for adding metadata to folder
Finally got it to work using REST API. But it involves additional REST call.
Below is the code to Create a folder, from that code we will call the get Folder method to get the folder's ID:
function ...
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Is there a limit for number terms that can be associated to a document
The first Managed Metadata field added to a list is allocated four columns:
A lookup field for the actual tag
A hidden text field for the string value
A lookup field for the catch all
A ...
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Share parent folder properties with child files e.g. word, excel
You would want to go into the document library settings and look at the Column Default values link. In here you can set the default column values for files placed into the folders. They will ...
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More advanced logic while filtering a view? SP2013
The View Filter can not do
(x OR y) AND z
it does:
x OR y AND z
So you have to move part of the logic into a Boolean type Calculated Column DocumentTypeFilter
=OR( [DocumentType]="Dashboard" , [...
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Why can't my value pass through JSON to SHarepoint list?
Two things:
Your metadata type is wrong. It should be SP.Data.ChangeOfAddressListListItem. The format is SP.Data.(list name)ListItem or SP.Data.(library name)Item when adding or updating an item.
You ...
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How to migrate documents with metadata to another site collection
If you can use PowerShell than there is one ready to use PowerShell commands mentioned in below mentioned article.
How to Copy SharePoint Documents Between Site Collections Using PowerShell
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Retrieving the file size / checksum
Make a GET request using this It will show response in JSON format.
You can use the below rest Api to make a request.
/_api/web/getfilebyserverrelativeurl('/Library Name/DocumentName.doc')/Length?@...
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Sharepoint - fast way to detect file size by URI using REST?
The Files endpoint might be of use:
/_api/web/lists/getByTitle('Document Library')/Files?$select=Size
When I ran it against an arbitrary library, it indicated a lot of 0 file sizes, so ymmv.
You ...
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Sharepoint - fast way to detect file size by URI using REST?
You can use below rest api to get file size without downloading file...
<yourdomain>/_api/web/getFileByServerRelativeUrl('/path/file.ext')/Properties
You will get one node with below name ...
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Bulk upload with tagging
What I typically do in this case would:
Standardize the filename so that they are all in the same format. I see at least 1 file with a - after the date and the dates are not in the same formats.
to ...
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Bulk upload with tagging
If you have use of SharePoint Designer with your site, you could also set up a simple workflow to copy the appropriate parts of the file names into their target fields in the document library.
As ...
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Are columns part of Metadata?
Yes, columns are considered metadata that help to sort/filter/find the information you are looking for.
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Are columns part of Metadata?
So, Metadata is actually added information that will help you categorize and later on find the information you are looking for.
Think of your MP3 collection (Or streaming service), your documents ...
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Is an iPhone a good analogy for SharePoint Metadata?
Metadata is data about the item which will help to make it search able /identifiable quickly. it is additional information about the item.
In you example you mentioned Iphone, But using camera or map ...
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Managed Metadata Service Connection
If you click OK in that screen, the first MMS, where you currently have your term groups, terms, enterprise keywords and tags, won't be the default MMS. That means that all new entries will end up in ...
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Creating content types for non-Office files
The "Unknown Document Type" content type is used when doing automatic document parsing to allow documents that have a content type that is not necessarily already associated with a library to be moved ...
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Update Custom Field Type Field by REST API SharePoint 2013
So far found nothing for the answer.
Seems it is not possible with the REST API.
But if someone can correct me here, please add answer.
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Renamed terms still show as old one
There are two things you need to think about when updating terms. First is the actual term on the list item, and the second is optional if you have managed metadata refiners, and that is to update ...
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