We have seen two different ways of adding columns to a library so far:
- Adding a column recipe in Chapter 4, Working with Lists, Libraries in SharePoint Online, showed you how to directly add columns to lists and libraries.
- Adding a content type to a list or library recipe, earlier in this chapter showed you how to associate content types with a library, thereby also associating the corresponding columns from such content types.
Adding a Managed Metadata column to a list or library is just like adding any other column type in SharePoint. Once you have added Managed Metadata columns to a library, you can tag documents with the terms from those columns. The steps to do this are no different than carrying out similar steps for other column types in SharePoint.
This recipe will show you specifically how to tag your documents with terms from Managed Metadata columns. Note that the steps for updating items in lists...