{"id":337,"date":"2011-03-23T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/23\/sharepoint-convert-folder-structures-to-metadata\/"},"modified":"2021-05-04T16:51:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T14:51:12","slug":"sharepoint-convert-folder-structures-to-metadata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/23\/sharepoint-convert-folder-structures-to-metadata\/","title":{"rendered":"SharePoint: Convert Folder Structures to Metadata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This fantastic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.endusersharepoint.com\/2010\/08\/02\/sharepoint-convert-folder-structures-to-metadata\/comment-page-1\/#comment-146157\">link<\/a> resolves one use case that we have with our current users.<\/p>\n<p>The point is that this is our first project with MS-SharePoint 2010 and we still have to learn how to resolve non inmediate user problems.<\/p>\n<p>Users are used to navigate on folders, and try that they look into 100.000 documents searching is not a real solution for them.<\/p>\n<p>This article resolves this and the important thing is the team&nbsp;has understood that we just cannot wait to the customer say us what they want to have: we&nbsp;can know it before because we know how they are currently working.<\/p>\n<p>With this easy solution we are answering to the expected user experience the client is asking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fantastic link resolves one use case that we have with our current users. 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