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About Me
Gregory Zelfond
10+ years of experience with SharePoint
SharePoint advocate, blogger
Love to solve business problems using code-free, out of
the box SharePoint configurations
Owner of SharePoint Maven (sharepointmaven.com)
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12 Reasons for NOT using Folders
1. Usability
2. URL length limitation
3. Moving File URL
4. Security
5. User experience
6. File duplication
7. 1 Lonely View
8. Can’t Sort & Filter
9. Change is hard
10. Lost documents
11. Navigation
12. Cost
For more info and detailed description on above
reasons, check out this blog post
http://sharepointmaven.com/12-reasons-folders-sharepoint-bad-idea/
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Document Sets explained
Document Set = “folder”
for related set of
documents with its own
“Home Page”.
Great for standardization
(i.e. each document set
[project] to have same
templates)
In addition, Document Set Version
History feature allows to capture set
of documents (versions) at a point of
time (i.e. going from one phase to
next)
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Document Sets: Pros & Cons
PROS
Folder-type user experience
Great for repeatable processes/projects,
standardization
CONS
Might not be applicable to “non-project” type
usage
Organizations must be “process and
methodology-oriented” for document sets to
work successfully
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Managed Metadata definitions
Definition: Managed metadata is a hierarchical
collection of centrally managed terms that you can
define, and then use as attributes for items in across
SharePoint
Term – a specific word or phrase that you associate
with an item
Term Set - group of related terms
Term Store Management Tool – SharePoint
functionality that allows administrators to centrally
define terms and term set hierarchies
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More on Managed Metadata
Taxonomy – a formal classification system. A
taxonomy groups the words, labels, and terms
that describe something, and then arranges
the groups into a hierarchy
Folksonomy – an informal classification
system. It evolves gradually as web site users
collaborate on words, labels, and terms on a
site (via tagging)
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