SharePoint 2010: An Introduction to Content Types

Content types are a very useful feature of SharePoint 2010 (and earlier versions), especially in regards to organising your documents and content. In effect a content type is a type of generic SharePoint content for example when you click on the new document option in a document library, you are using a document content type,... Continue Reading →

October 17, 2011 1

Introduction to Document Libraries in SharePoint 2010 – Part 2

In the previous post in this series I covered the basics of using custom columns or metadata in document libraries. In this much shorter article I will take the concepts already covered and extend of them by introducing the lookup column type. Using the Lookup Column Type The lookup column type can be used to add metadata to... Continue Reading →

January 25, 2011 0

Introduction to Document Libraries in SharePoint 2010 – Part 1

Probably the most commonly used features of SharePoint are the document management features. This series of articles will attempt to highlight some of the functionality that is available to users in configuring and managing document libraries. I would like to add that the following is not designed as a guide to best practise, but is purely... Continue Reading →