The Microsoft® Office help website for Access defines a lookup column as follows: “A lookup column (or field) is a field in a table whose value is retrieved from another table or from a value list. You can use a lookup column to display a list of choices in a combo box or list box. The choices can come from a table or query, or they can be values that you supply. You can create a lookup column manually by setting a field’s Lookup field properties, or automatically by completing the Lookup Wizard. Whenever possible, you should use the Lookup…
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Use Site Columns to Ensure Uniformity of Terms for Useful Management of Taxonomies in SharePoint Server 2010
In order to build a useful search feature for SharePoint Server 2010, keywords must be consistently used across a SharePoint site and sub sites. Site Columns provide us with a means of enforcing some uniformity over the method by which text information is organized into terms and groups of related text information into term sets. A Technet article, “Managed Metadata Overview” provides us with a definition of terms and term sets that we think is essential for understanding the roles played by columns and site columns: “[a] term is a word or a phrase that can be associated with an…
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