Content types are a fundamental concept of SharePoint foundation. Any data that you put inside
SharePoint gets associated with some content type. Any content type gives you a number of reusable
settings. The reusable settings consist of the structure of information, associated workflows, information management policies, field rendering templates, and in the case of documents—document information panels and document formats and templates.
As an example in your organization, you may produce proposals for clients or software defect bug
reports. It is possible that both of these are Word documents, but their meanings are quite different. The workflows that they need to be routed through are quite different and the associated collected metadata on each of these can also be quite different. Therefore, it makes sense to differentiate between them as their own content types.
In fact, any content that you put inside of SharePoint automatically gets associated with some
content type. At the very base, you have the “item content type,” with just one possible column in it
called Title. For every document that you upload into SharePoint, it gets associated with that document type content type. So any further content types you create you are basically inheriting from these base content types, or another content type that in turn inherits from these base content types. The document content type also inherits from the item content type, so the granddaddy of all content types is the item content type.
Let’s examine this as a practical example. Let’s say you’re setting up the SharePoint site to collect
information about zoo animals. You could just create a custom list and add the necessary columns in it to capture all the metadata necessary for a zoo animal. That would allow you to capture data as the
default “item” content type, thus making your zoo animal of about the same category as school supplies.
A better way of storing zoo animals would be to give zoo animals their own content type.
To create a content type for zoo animals, visit your SharePoint site at http://sp2010 and click site
actions\site settings. Then, under the gallery section click the site content types link and you will see all the existing content types that are currently set up in your SharePoint site. As you can see, even out of the box Microsoft has made plenty of use of content types.
SharePoint gets associated with some content type. Any content type gives you a number of reusable
settings. The reusable settings consist of the structure of information, associated workflows, information management policies, field rendering templates, and in the case of documents—document information panels and document formats and templates.
As an example in your organization, you may produce proposals for clients or software defect bug
reports. It is possible that both of these are Word documents, but their meanings are quite different. The workflows that they need to be routed through are quite different and the associated collected metadata on each of these can also be quite different. Therefore, it makes sense to differentiate between them as their own content types.
In fact, any content that you put inside of SharePoint automatically gets associated with some
content type. At the very base, you have the “item content type,” with just one possible column in it
called Title. For every document that you upload into SharePoint, it gets associated with that document type content type. So any further content types you create you are basically inheriting from these base content types, or another content type that in turn inherits from these base content types. The document content type also inherits from the item content type, so the granddaddy of all content types is the item content type.
Let’s examine this as a practical example. Let’s say you’re setting up the SharePoint site to collect
information about zoo animals. You could just create a custom list and add the necessary columns in it to capture all the metadata necessary for a zoo animal. That would allow you to capture data as the
default “item” content type, thus making your zoo animal of about the same category as school supplies.
A better way of storing zoo animals would be to give zoo animals their own content type.
To create a content type for zoo animals, visit your SharePoint site at http://sp2010 and click site
actions\site settings. Then, under the gallery section click the site content types link and you will see all the existing content types that are currently set up in your SharePoint site. As you can see, even out of the box Microsoft has made plenty of use of content types.
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