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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Power User Cookbook

By : Adrian Colquhoun
Book Image

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Power User Cookbook

By: Adrian Colquhoun

Overview of this book

The power of Microsoft SharePoint as the Enterprise collaboration platform is ever-growing; due to the wide range of capabilities it offers, SharePoint 2010 can help transform your business so you can quickly respond to the changes and challenges that you face. For End Users, SharePoint helps you and your team work "better, faster, and smarter". This book will take your SharePoint knowledge further, showing you how to use your skills to solve real business problems. While many other titles might be characterized as "SharePoint Explained", this cookbook contains advanced content that goes beyond that found in other SharePoint End User offerings: it is "SharePoint Applied". It provides recipes walking Power Users through a range of collaboration, data integration, business intelligence, electronic form, and workflow scenarios, as well as offering three invaluable business scenarios for building composite applications. The cookbook begins by providing a comprehensive treatment of SharePoint essentials, while quickly moving forward to topics like Data Integration, Business Intelligence, and automating business processes. At the end of the book, the information presented in the earlier recipes is combined to create three example SharePoint 2010 "composite applications" for Human Resources (HR), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Project Management. Composite applications are the "unique selling point" of SharePoint 2010 and understanding how to create them is the key to unlocking the business value of the product.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Power User Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a list column based on a term set


Once defined, term sets can be used to create list columns that allow users to quickly select term-set values rather than trying to type in data from scratch.

Getting ready

This recipe works for:

  • SharePoint 2010 – Standard Edition

  • SharePoint 2010 – Enterprise Edition

  • Office 365 (SharePoint Online)

You will need a list where you wish to define your column and a term set that you want to use in the column definition. This recipe uses the Orders list created earlier in this chapter and the Sales Location term set defined in the previous recipe for illustration.

How to do it...

  1. Open the Orders list.

  2. Select the List tab in the List Tools ribbon.

  3. Click on the Create Column icon.

  4. The Create Column dialog is displayed. Name the column Order Location and select Managed Metadata for the column type.

  5. Scroll down through the Create Column dialog until the Term Set Settings are displayed.

  6. Select the Sales Location term set.

  7. Scroll to the bottom of the Create Column dialog...