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SharePoint 2013 Global Navigation Across Site Collections

When you create you're the second site collection in your fresh Web Application, it typically comes with additional sites in the URL. It doesn't affect the user unless she wants to type the URL ...
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Can you read a Term Set using REST?

SharePoint 2013 does not support managing term set using REST API still now. In that case, JSOM is the one and only way. If your requirement is just to read the term set, then you can follow this. ...
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Rename Term store (root) with powershell - managed metadata service

You cannot edit the Name directly, because the Name of the TermStore is simply the name of the MetadataWebServiceApplicationProxy. So what you have to do is to rename that one instead. In your ...
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When to use new Term Group rather than creating new Term Set

Groups define security boundaries. A group is a set of term sets that all share common security requirements. Only users who are designated as contributors to a specific group can manage term sets ...
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Getting TermSet for a different locale using JSOM

Basically it depends on the following settings: a Default Language of Term Store selected language while creating Term Set Assume English(1033), Finnish(1035) and Russian(1049) languages are ...
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How to migrate a site collection and the related term store toward another farm?

I successfully did it by following this blog post: Source SP Farm - Windows Azure SharePoint Server 2013 VM. Destination SP Farm - SharePoint Server 2013 VM. http://blog.kuppens-switsers.net/...
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Using synonyms for managed metadata terms

Synonyms in Managed Metadata are completely unrelated to synonyms in a thesaurus for Search. You could write a PowerShell script that read the MMS terms and created a formatted thesaurus then ...
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How to add SharePoint Document Library web part on a team site page?

Based on your Head Question How to put SharePoint Document Library on team site? and what I understood you need to show Doc library at Team Site page not within Site Contents. So the answer should be ...
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Termstore / managed metadata / content types

Answer 1 : To be able to add column as filter type in managed metadata liberary settings you have first to create termset in managed metadata term store then create column as managed metadata field ...
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Multi-geo managed metadata, terms replicated with label + Guid

We opened a support ticket against Microsoft, confirming that this was unexpected behavior. The issue was fixed bu the support.
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Rest API to return all Terms and their GUID

You could just use the pnp cmdlet Get-PnPTerm to get all Terms and its GUID under specific termsets. It's very easy. Read here for more: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/sharepoint-...
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Import term set with labels

Unfortunately you cannot import labels using OOB import functionality. I recommend using Lapointe.SharePoint.PowerShell.wsp found here and here to do the import. It supports also labels. You can do ...
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Increase number of terms shown in termstore

Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy.Tree JavaScript control (treecontrol.js) is intended for rendering Taxonomy tree control. Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy.Tree PageLimit property defines the number of ...
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Simple Powershell script to import TermSet file into Group

There was a same question on stackexchange and answered.I hope this article helps you out. How to import term sets to Managed Metadata Service using PowerShell and CSV file Also the below TechNet ...
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The Managed Metadata Service or Connection is currently not available

The Managed Metadata service application is a different entity and it contains its own database as well. This has its own Users managing provision. Even though you are the Site collection ...
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How do I create a term driven breadcrumb trail?

As Robert says I easily can implement that utilizing SPTitleBreadcrumb in almost similar manner. Here is my html code in layout page: <div id="modern-breadcrumb"> <!--MS:<...
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How can I add a SharePoint group as a term group manager in managed metadata?

Even though the Group Managers description states "Enter user names, group names, or e-mail addresses in order to grant group manager permissions", you cannot use a SharePoint group. From TechNet: ...
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Sharepoint 2013 - Global Navigation, Creating Explicit Inclusion Site Collections

You may need to recreate the Term Set again. Navigate to http://portal/services/_layouts/15/AreaNavigationSettings.aspx directly or navigate through Site Settings: Make sure you have selected Managed ...
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Manage term sets in the front-end

You can set property of term set as "Open" which will let anyone add a new term to an open term set. So user not necessarily need to go to the path mentioned above. In list/library while selection of ...
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Group by managed metadata column returns null for contribute users

Found the solution here - Unable to create a site column based on the Managed metadata type? My issue was resolve by granting permissions to users in the hidden Taxonomy list, which can be ...
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Find friendly url from term guid using javascript

To retrieve navigation behavior and properties for a SP.Taxonomy.Term object the SP.Publishing.Navigation.NavigationTerm object is intended, the following example demonstrates how to retrieve those ...
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Can I exclude wiki pages that are linked to a Term (where this term contain a shared property) from the search results

So to start, the custom properties in the termstore are not propagated to the search index. You can use them to modify your search based on the current term (say, passing the current term ID into ...
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Get Sharepoint Central administration from SpFarm Object

Try using below code var service = SPFarm.Local.Services.GetValue<SPWebService>(string.Empty); foreach (SPWebApplication webApplication in service.WebApplications) { //...
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app-only calls fail on term store change on SharePoint Online

No, It is not possible to update the Term Store with app-only permission. You must use user credentials that have Term Store Administrator rights. Even though there is a permission scope for this, it ...
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How to Iterate the Terms using Termset Id in sharepoint 2013?

There are couple options you can try. You can call TermSet.GetAllTerms() method to return all terms under that TermSet. Another approach you can try is to use recursive function to enumerate ...
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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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Add values to a Multiple Metadata column via SQL

Add a pipe e.g. '|' to the list 'Qualifications;BSc|BA'
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No data received from term stores after Cumulative update August 2018

After investigating the ULS log, I found out that some user rights on registry have been during the update causing the Metadata service to be down. I found this blog explaining why and giving the ...
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import terms with other labels (synonyms) from CSV file using powershell

I have written a PowerShell script that gets terms and other labels from a CSV file and imports them into the Term Store. CSV formatting is shown in the GUI. SharePointTools GitHub
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SharePoint 2013 PowerShell: Modify term set global navigation items

I would suggest looking at PnP PowerShell. This is a collection of commandlets that extend the capability of PowerShell. This article explains several capabilities PnP PowerShell provides for ...

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