Managed Metadata Navigation In SharePoint Using Terms And Termsets

In order to resolve this issue, go to Central Admin ->Manage Service Applications and highlight the Managed Metadata Service Proxy. Click properties in the ribbon.





Check the second check box and go back to the page where we were creating the term sets. This should resolve the term set creation error. Now, let’s go ahead and create term sets.

• Click create term sets.
  
  
  

This will create a term set under our current site collection.

• Click on Open Term Store Management Tool to edit the term set and add the new terms.
  
  
  
  
• Right click the newly created term set to create new terms.
  
  
  
  
• Click on create term to create new terms.
  
  
  

For each term created, click on it to manage the navigation, term driven pages and the custom properties.

One useful feature is the friendly URL setting in the navigation tab. You can chose from either of the two options.

• Simple link or header
• Term-driven page with friendly URL

On selecting the term driven friendly URL option, a text box will come where we can set the friendly URL, that appears in the term-driven pages tab.

• Click save to save the changes made in the navigation tab and go to term driven tab.
  
  
  
  
• Now go to term-driven pages and configure the friendly URL, as shown below:
  
  
  

We can also set the target page that should appear on clicking the term.



Use the browse functionality to select the landing page.

• Click save in the term store management tool page.
  
  
• Click OK in the navigations settings page to save the changes.
  
  
  

The term store is now configured with new terms. Finally, let’s see how the navigation comes up in the page.

Make sure you set the target page for the term set, else it will not come up in the navigation. Since the terms were selected to appear in the global navigation as well as current navigation, it has come up in both the places, as shown below:


Thus, we saw an important benefit of Managed Metadata Service, which is a managed navigation. Using term sets, we saw, how we can create a managed navigation, instead of the structural navigation, which is a great bonus, considering the fact that it can be configured out of the box.