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Choice vs. Managed Metadata

11 min • 4 mars 2022

In Episode # 97 of the SharePoint Maven podcast, I once again discuss some terminology we have in SharePoint Online. This time, I explain the difference between a Choice type metadata and Managed Metadata (also known as Term Store Metadata).

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