SharePoint Saturday Charlotte Using Managed Metadata for JavaScript typeahead textboxes

Craig Pilkenton Solution Principal with Slalom Consulting SharePoint .NET SQL Server Powershell Started with “Tahoe” back in early 2000 craig.pilkenton@slalom.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/craigpilkenton

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What The Managed Metadata Service is a centralized repository of information Allows for one central location to store and manage keywords or sets of terms Can be delegated down to any users to keep it current for the business Nested terms and Alternate Labels to help find unknown terms One of the great benefits of SharePoint is the way it has centralized repositories of information that we can reuse over and over to support our clients. The Managed Metadata Service is one of the most powerful in that it allows for one central location to store and manage keywords or sets of terms, but can be delegated down to any users to keep it current for the business. This, along with it's support of nested terms and Alternate Labels, makes it perfect to help users find stuff. Using this great service, we'll query the system for different Term Sets and make them available as a typeahead feature in any of our textboxes.

Why Helping our users find information faster Typeahead textboxes help users find things they might not know they were looking for Using Managed Metadata means we’re pulling from values already assigned to our documents to describe them With a centralized repository of terms, updates and changes are applied in one place and automatically propagate

How Tools Needed A SharePoint 2013 site to work with (an Office 365 Developer Site will work too!) A JavaScript development toolset (Brackets, Notepad++, SharePoint Designer 2013, etc.) A typeahead JavaScript library Any modern browser to work within

Need Enhancing Search Refiners for finding documents When Need Enhancing Search Refiners for finding documents Creating intelligent submission forms to ensure correct data Complicated or specific information lookup (like airport codes) When number of items would be too large or inconvenient to use a dropdown

Links & Resources SharePointCommunity.net – Using Managed Metadata for JavaScript typeahead Twitter Typeahead.js Library – Examples and Basics Cann0nf0dder.wordpress.com – Accessing Taxonomy Term Store with JSOM UI-Patterns.com – Autocomplete Design Pattern OneDrive code repository – http://1drv.ms/1Kr2Jvn

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