Categorizing Links Outside the Workspace

There are times when the users of your workspace may want to share and comment on information residing on a Web site which is outside of your workspace. SharePoint Portal Server gives you the ability to link to this data with the use of shortcuts and metadata. See Chapter 18, “Configuring SharePoint Portal Server to Crawl Other Content Sources” to learn more about adding links (shortcuts) to your workspace.

With this feature you can treat the links, or stubs (when you add a shortcut to the workspace, the object created is referred to as a stub—see Figure 12.14) like the other content in your workspace. You can manually assign categories to this information so that it is also filed properly under the correct ...

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