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LynnProspect
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Jan 21, 2025

Unable to add new term set to a term group I just created

I'm self-learning how to create and manage Sharepoint metadata for my organisation (we haven't used Sharepoint before, other than as the back-end storage space for Teams). 

We've set up two dummy communication sites, and are experimenting with tenant-wide and site-level metadata.

I've created a term group at the tenant level, and have added two term sets within it. Created a few terms within each of the sets, and been able to add them as columns and apply them to docs within the communication sites. So far so good. Now I want to add a third term set to the tenant-wide term group, but am unable to do so - Sharepoint suddenly tells me I have view-only access to the term group which I myself created earlier today. Can anybody explain why that would happen? 

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    LynnProspect
    Brass Contributor

    Thanks for this. Yes I had - Chat GPT had explained this to me!  (although it seems an odd requirement - I'm a global admin, the system allows me to create a term group, but I have to then give myself specific admin rights if I want to edit what I've just created!) But I think it took a while to deploy - prompted by your reply I've just reloaded the Term Store page and I can now add new term sets to my group. I need to remember to be patient instead of panicking!

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