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Editing a site column

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Editing a site column

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- [Instructor] Imagine that before knowing about site columns you had added the same choice column to multiple lists or libraries and those values need to be changed or updated. You would need to go to each list or library and make those changes. This is tedious and cumbersome. One of the many advantages of using site columns instead of manual columns includes this concept of cascading updates. What I mean by that is if a site column is updated all of the lists and libraries consuming that site column are updated as well. When we previous looked at the difference between a choice column and a lookup column we determined the advantage of using a lookup column is that the options in the drop-down menu will update as the list updates. But what about our handy little choice columns? What happens when they change? Remember, choice columns are best used when you have options that never change or change rarely. As we start adding events we might realize we've forgotten some Event Types…

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