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Multiple termsets pointing to single taxonomy field or multple Enterprise keywords field in same lis
My client has a typical requirement in sharepoint. They want to create a site column/field in list which will accept data from multiple Term sets. Is it possible?
Taxonomy column can be pointed to only one termset, not multiple
Now I can add Enterprise keyword, but the list is already having Enterprise keyword field. So is it possible to add multiple Enterprise keyword fields in the same list or create another site column which will do the same thing like Enterprise keyword.
Any idea?
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You can't apply multiple termsets to a single field. Maybe one option is to organise your terms differently.
Imagine you have 2 termsets
Cars
Ford
Nissan
BMW
and
Public Transport
Train
Bus
Plain
You coudl organise them like this:
My-Termset
Means Of Transport
Cars
Ford
Nissan
BMW
Public Transport
Train
Bus
Plain
Then apply to your MMS field Means Of Transport. So pick a parent term as a base of your termset .
ok. Is it possible to create two enterprise keyword type column in the same list?
- I don't think so, but I am not sure why you want to do that if you can assign multiple values in the Keyword column. You can have additional custom metadata with values controlled by a term set, but if you can assign more than one value in the Keyword column, I don't think you don't need a second Keyword column (unless I am missing something).
I was going to suggest the exact same thing - but this assumes that the individual term sets are truly related to one another. I've used the approach before when I wanted to use a controlled set of keyword/topic tags but each group or department has their own values. For example: a term set called Topics with terms for HR, Legal, Communications and then values below each one for HR topics, Legal topics, etc. In the HR libraries, you point your column to just the HR Topics sub-group of the Topic term set. In Legal, to the Legal sub-group. Then, when you need to have all possible values as the choice, you point to the Topics term set. If the same term is needed across sub-groups, you can re-use the term. While you can restrict a column to just a sub-set of a term set, you can't combine term sets. So, with a bit of flipping the problem, you can get the same outcome.
