I just got back from a great SPTechCon conference in North Bethesda, Maryland (aka “DC”) last night. It was the last SPTechCon under the BZ Media banner, as SPTechCon has been acquired by Exposition Development Company (ExpoDevCo). SPTechCon is one of the oldest SharePoint conferences and has been very good to its speakers and attendees over the…
I got a question on one of my recent posts –Retrieving Multiple SharePoint Managed Metadata Columns via REST – from Chris Parker (@ChrispyBites) about whether the same technique would work in SharePoint 2013. I wanted to know the answer, so I borrowed Julie’s SharePoint 2013 VM and gave it a whirl. It was a little odd,…
I’ve used this code a few times in different projects now, and I wanted to post it in case it’s useful for anyone. Most of us know that the REST APIs still have some weaknesses, and working with Managed Metadata is definitely one of them. (See: Let’s Capture Missing or Insufficient SharePoint REST Endpoints) If you…
Introduction Stefan Bauer (@StfBauer) and I have known each other for a while now. We share a passion for developing solutions in SharePoint that both function well and look good. User Experience Matters. The other day I was working on a project where I wanted to access some managed metadata (MM) values in SharePoint 2010…
There was a post from Roger Langedal over on SPYam the other day asking about getting the value of a Managed Metadata column using jQuery. I hadn’t tried this before, so I thought I should give it a go. [important]By the way, if you are a SharePoint person (you’ve arrived here, so I think we…
Managed Metadata columns are so cool and so nasty at the same time. If you want to display the value of a Managed Metadata column in a SharePoint Designer workflow, you get a horrible representation of it like ‘TermText|ba7e2a4f-6602-47a8-aa81-bca54756a356’. The only solution I know for this is the one in the comment from Kristina P…
I’m working with the Managed Metadata Service for a client project, and we ran into an issue in the Term Store Management Tool. We’d like to add a SharePoint group as Contributors to a specific Term Store Group. On the Term Store Management screen, the instructions say: Contributors Enter user names, group names, or e-mail…
We were trying to change an existing Managed Metadata Site Column from allowing single values to allow multiple values. When we did so, we received this error: /Lists/Projects : Cannot change this column to allow multiple values because it is currently being indexed. The error is a little bit misleading, as it might lead you…