Content is king. Context is queen. Together, they will rule your web. To make it as simple as possible for users to find the desired content on portals, typically "related content" is shown in the context of a given topic. As a result context dependent contact information, related products, further news, links and downloads can be better found by users and visitors. Managed metadata in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 enables editors to centrally define relationships between SharePoint items, documents and pages by tagging it using enterprise taxonomies and provides a very flexible way, to display related content using the Related Content Web Part for SharePoint 2010. The Web Part is available as part of the Knowledge Management Suite for SharePoint 2010 or as a separate feature.

Fig.: Implementation sample of the "Related Content Web Part". The content that is shown on the right hand side is linked automatically using tags / categories of the main page content.

With the Related Content Web Part for SharePoint 2010 out-of-the-box dynamic web sites like product- and services catalogues, information sites etc. and can be built:

• Context-dependent dynamic display of related services, solutions and other topics
• Linking of accessories, related products, product groups, spare parts 
• Assignment of documentation for services and solutions, e.g. data sheets
• Downloads for given topics, e.g. files like Word, Excel or ZIP archives
• Customer references assigned to services and products
• Current adresses and context-driven contact information
• Related tasks of a given topic
• Related dates and events of a given topic 

Other features & benefits: 

• Consistent linking of related content automatically during runtime:
  The SharePoint Related Content Web Part makes it very easy to ensure consistency of the complex linking network because all linking is done automatically during runtime, with respect to publishing timeframes, access rights etc.
• Completely category driven pages:
  As an option the web part allows to build completely category driven pages and sites. 
• Easy to setup:
  The content can be created completely context driven or by setting fixed tags for the content to display.
• Flexible template-based output:
  The output is rendered by XSLT templates that can be easily adapted. The output can be sortet by title, publishing date or type of information.
• Includes external data as well: You may also include any external data sources to tag and use with the SharePoint Knowledge Management and Social Networking features without any restrictions with the help of the Business Data List Connector for SharePoint.  
• 100% SharePoint 2010 technology:
  Completely based on SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Metadata Management API.
• Seemless integration:
  The Web Part works perfectly together with other SharePoint Knowledge Management Suite components.

Visitors can better find the desired information - a great advantage for SharePoint based web sites in intranet, extranet and Internet.

Please register to download a shareware version of the Knowledge Management Suite for SharePoint for free usage now. Use the registration form on this page or contact sales@layer2.de.

With the complete FREE shareware version you can download and use a feature-limited solution. To buy a license for this product, please click the shopping card symbols on this page.

The product is licensed on a per server base (one time fee). No additional clients licenses (CALs) are required. If you have several servers (e.g. in a farm scenario) all servers have to be licensed. You need a license for every web frontend server. For background operation (Auto Tagger) application servers have to be licensensed. Infrastructure server, e.g. for indexing or search don't need a license. You can optionally buy Software Assurance (SA) for free updates / upgrades to protect your investment.

For more information about licensing please check our FAQs or contact sales@layer2.de directly.

Please enter the product folder in the distribution zip-file, run the installer (*.exe) and install or upgrade the product following the steps. Use the "Run as Admin" option of the context menu (right click).  After sucessfull installation please activate this feature on site collection level as a site collection administrator.

The web part has the following settings:

Fig.: Related Content Web Part Settings

• Tag Types to Search
  Generally the web part can make use of social tags, terms (centrally managed in the term store) or both. Please select, which way to go.
• Search Provider
  The web part uses SharePoint search to find related content. You can specifiy any certain provider or leave blank for default.
• Search Scope
  The web part searches related content with defined scope, e.g. people only to display contact persons or specific documents for related documentation. Please select from the list of previously defined search scopes.
• Terms
  To display related content dynamically, please leave this blank. In this case the tags of the parent item (e.g. item in detail view, page etc.) is used to retrieve the tags or terms for the content to display.
  Alternatively you can select one or more defined terms from a given term set to display content, that is related to this selected terms.
  Additionally you can combine your own selected tags with the tags that are set at the parent page. This gives you even more flexibility to display related content of a given category.
• Matching Options
  In case several terms are selected you have to select matching options to combine the terms, e.g. AND / OR.
• Max Item Count
  To display only a defined number of related content items, please enter maximal item count to display here.
• Item Order
  You can specifiy an defined order to display the items, e.g. by search result relevance, alphabetically by title or by creation date desc (to display the most current content).
• XSLT settings
  To completely adapt the output to your web site style enter XSLT formatting code here optionally.