Portfolio and Technology Blog: 20 Years of Tinkering

If you've ever come across the following error when looking at Sharepoint 2010 My Sites:

There was a problem retrieving data for this field. Updating values in this field is disabled temporarily. You can still update values in other fields.

Look no further.  This is why:

www.wictorwilen.se

However, you will need to first configure your Managed Metadata Service.  Great Instructions here:

salaudeen.blogspot.com

A great video that shows how to setup a Managed Metadata Service within SharePoint 2010.

technet.microsoft.com/

Demonstrates how to:

• Create a new Managed MetaData Service
• Specify a site collection as a content hub
• How to configure other site collections to subscribe to the hub's meta data
• How to create metadata term sets using the TaxonomyTerm Set tool
• How to create a content type the utilizes term sets
• How to publish a content type to make it available to subscribing sites
• How to force propagation of meta data updates