From the course: SharePoint Advanced: Document Creation and Automation
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What is a content type? - SharePoint Tutorial
From the course: SharePoint Advanced: Document Creation and Automation
What is a content type?
- [Instructor] Up to this point we have been creating the building blocks of our templates. It's now time to take it to the next level and discuss content types. Content types are probably one of my favorite features of SharePoint, and in my opinion, one of the best kept secrets. A content type is a reusable collection of COMs that can be added to a list or library, and then they can be customized once they've been added. To best explain content types, let's look at a scenario that I think we can all relate to. Now, I fully realize that we're in more of a digital download kind of world now, but most of us have or have had a collection of movies and music in our house, or at least you can imagine that we did, right? What if you were to create an inventory of that collection? What information would you want to store about those items so you could quickly locate what you're looking for? For CDs you might want to record information such as title, artist, genre, release date, producer. For…
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