You need authorization to access and manage term set or terms in the SharePoint term store.

MrinmayeeBharadwaj — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:05:02 GMT

Updated doc at June 2022 ArcGIS for SharePoint Release!

This is an optional, one-time process that should be done by the SharePoint administrator. The ArcGIS for SharePoint geotagging workflow creates terms as geotags in the SharePoint term store; these terms are stored in the built-in Keywords term set by default. If you want ArcGIS for SharePoint to create and organize these terms in dedicated term sets, follow the steps in this workflow to establish a dedicated term group.

I created a new SharePoint page and added the new ArcGIS Maps web part.

After adding a layer using a SharePoint list or adding a layer from ArcGIS Online, I click the Geotag and geosearch tool to geotag documents, I receive a notification and I am unable to geotag documents.

Solution A:

Please make sure that you are added as a term store administrator in your SharePoint org.

Follow these steps:

On the term store management page, select Taxonomy in the tree view.
From the General tab, enter desired names in the Term Store Administrators box. You can add multiple users by separating them with semicolons.
Click the Save button to commit your changes.

Solution B:

Request your SharePoint org’s administrator to perform the following steps:

• Login to your SharePoint Online Admin center (E.g. https://-Admin.SharePoint.com)
• Click More Features in the left hand side navigation bar. Click the Open button under the Term store to open the Term Store Management Tool.
• On the term store management page, select Taxonomy in the tree view.
• Add new term group with the name “Esri” (case sensitive).
• Under the newly added term group (“Esri”), please create a new term set “M4SP” (case sensitive).

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