Site content types
2 Ways to add a video content type to SharePoint 2010
SharePoint 2010 supports the uploading and storing of media files such as image files, audio files, and video files. If you want to upload a video to a SharePoint document library, you can choose to provide metadata for the video by associating it with the Video content type. The Video content type is one of the default content types that comes with ...
SharePoint Designer 2010 workflow types
SharePoint Designer 2010 allows you to create 3 types of workflows: List Reusable Site Each type of SharePoint Designer 2010 workflow offers an increasing degree of disentanglement of workflows with SharePoint lists or libraries. List workflows are the most tightly coupled to SharePoint lists or libraries, while Site workflows are not at all coupled to SharePoint lists or libraries. Reusable workflows lie ...
SharePoint Video Tutorial: Use a content type to add a document template to a SharePoint document library
The steps described in the video above can also be found in the following SharePoint document management article: Adding a document template to a SharePoint document library using a content type. In this SharePoint document management video you learned... How to create a custom SharePoint site content type based on the Document parent content type. How to assign a document template for an ...
SharePoint Designer workflow: Create a new document based on a content type
Scenario You want to use a SharePoint Designer workflow to create a Word, Excel, or any other type of document that is based on a document template that was added as a content type to a SharePoint document library. Solution You can use the Create List Item action in a SharePoint Designer workflow to create a new document that is based on a ...
How to set the default document template on a SharePoint document library
The default document template on a SharePoint document library is defined as the document template of the first content type listed under the menu of the New button on the SharePoint document library. The importance of the order of document templates listed under the menu of the New button on a SharePoint document library becomes apparent when you want to use ...
Document Center site template available in WSS 3.0?
What is the Document Center? The Document Center is a site template that comes with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. It provides features for creating and managing large sets of documents. The Document Center is not available in WSS 3.0, but you can enable several of the features provided by the Document Center in MOSS 2007, in WSS 3.0. Enabling Document Center features in ...
Design and create a document content type in SharePoint
Document content types in SharePoint While SharePoint offers several types of site content types, the two most important content types for document management in SharePoint are used to create: Documents Folders Site content types used to create documents are called document content types, and those for folders, folder content types. Document and folder content types encapsulate the metadata, workflows, policies, and other settings of documents ...
How to create a SharePoint site column
Site columns are used in SharePoint as metadata on documents. Document types in SharePoint are defined through content types. The scope of a site column, that is, the availability of a site column on SharePoint sites, depends on the SharePoint site you create the site column on. The availability of a site column follows the site hierarchy in SharePoint, which means ...
How to add a content type to a SharePoint document library
You can use content types in SharePoint to define document types. Content types consist of site columns, which are used to define metadata of documents in SharePoint. Content types allow you to store documents of different types in the same SharePoint document library. For example, you can use content types to define multiple document templates on a SharePoint document library. Adding ...
Adding a document template to a SharePoint document library using a content type
You can use site content types to assign one or more document templates to a SharePoint document library. This means that you can create document templates that define the structure of documents and then add these document templates to a document library, so that users can create documents based on these document templates. Figure 1. Document templates assigned ...
Understanding the basics of content types in SharePoint
Document types and metadata in SharePoint Content types in SharePoint define document types in document management, while site columns in SharePoint define the metadata in document management. Since document types consist of metadata, content types consist of site columns. In SharePoint, a content type always inherits from a base content type. So when you create a content ...
Defining document management metadata in SharePoint
Introduction to SharePoint site columns Site columns are at the core of document management in SharePoint. As mentioned in Defining document types and metadata in an EDRMS, you can use site columns in SharePoint to define metadata and content types to define the document types that make use of site columns. Site columns provide a central and reusable model for defining columns: You can ...