The new document centre feature of SharePoint 2010 enables documents to be filtered and searched by Meta Tags that are associated with those documents.

SharePoint has always had some form of metadata capabilities. However the latest version includes the first attempt at managing metadata. This post is a brief introduction and overview.

We have seen that the job can be done with SharePoint out-of-the-box tools; creating the list and library with the fields we need, and doing a simple workflow with SharePoint Designer.

I would like that list to be able to be consumed by columns across the entire site collection. Is this something that can be done?

Well, better late than never, as I’m too fond of saying. In this series, you’ve seen how you can use some DVWPs, jQuery (and simple JavaScript), and the SharePoint Web Services to build a pretty slick and complex application.

As we go through the series you’ll see how we can easily apply Records Management policies to any type of content within SharePoint 2010 which is extremely powerful!

However we will be specifically concentrating on new functionality in SharePoint 2010 and defining our Content Types with Records Management in mind.

a site that has certain elements such as a task list, calendar, document libraries and some other out of the box functionality that SharePoint 2010 offers.

Prior to to Sharepoint I had never heard of a shared drive or even seen a folder structure so I took to metadata (column tagging) organization right from the start.

Following on the theme of common sense, I’d like to provide some additional guidance and best practices around jumpstarting your SharePoint governance.