1. SharePoint Saturday Charlotte
Using Managed Metadata for JavaScript typeahead textboxes

2. Craig Pilkenton Solution Principal with Slalom Consulting
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4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

9. 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 –

10. Craig Pilkenton craig.pilkenton@slalom.com
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