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title: "Create Searchable Metadata in SharePoint"
canonical: "https://kb.uconn.edu/space/IKB/26785644547/Create%20Searchable%20Metadata%20in%20SharePoint"
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Students, faculty, and staff can create searchable tags at the SharePoint website. Doing so aids in searching for files at the website, [s.uconn.edu/sharepoint](http://s.uconn.edu/sharepoint).

## Types of Tags

> ✅ All these methods of tagging are searchable by the SharePoint website’s search bar at [s.uconn.edu/sharepoint](http://s.uconn.edu/sharepoint).

### Image Tags

- Unlike the implication of the name of this tag, Image Tags can be applied to any file in SharePoint.
- Tags cannot be applied to Folders.
- Tags are not visible to users except for the times of adding, editing, removing.
- These tags are each typed in by the user at the time of tagging.

[https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/26785120263](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/26785120263) 

### Metadata Field

- Users may add a new column to their view at the SharePoint website.
- Tags can be applied to Folders.
- Visible at all times on the website.
- These tags are each typed in by the user at the time of tagging.

[https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/26785349644](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/26785349644) 

### Preset Tags

- Owners of SharePoint sites can create a list of Tags that can be applied to files and folders.
- Can be applied to Folders.
- Visible at all times on the website.
- These tags chosen from a list by the user at the time of tagging.

[https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/26773028894](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/26773028894) 

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