Why we use Terms

SharePoint allows targeting of content using Audiences. These are good but they come with a few challenges:

• Audiences are not always easy to setup
• They can require additional licenses
• They are not flexible
• They don’t allow tracking
• You can’t quickly query membership
• You can’t target content as mandatory or optional

To make Compliance Tracker 365 flexible, we decided to use highly configurable Terms. Terms are native to SharePoint libraries and are mapped in Compliance Tracker 365 to User Profiles.

Utilising Terms provides complete flexibly for the Compliance Tracker 365 manager to update terms and profile members as needed.

Members can be associated to profile terms individually, via groups or using profile properties, providing ultimate flexibility. Using Terms provides the speed to process and display personal unread content within seconds of opening a SharePoint page.