The document discusses configuring a content type hub in SharePoint. A content type hub is a special site collection used to store and manage content types and site columns that can then be used across multiple site collections. It describes setting up the prerequisites for a content type hub, including having a managed metadata service and team site collection. It then provides step-by-step instructions for activating the content type syndication hub feature, creating a new content type, and configuring the properties and associated site columns of that new content type.
The document discusses configuring a content type hub in SharePoint. A content type hub is a special site collection used to store and manage content types and site columns that can then be used across multiple site collections. It describes setting up the prerequisites for a content type hub, including having a managed metadata service and team site collection. It then provides step-by-step instructions for activating the content type syndication hub feature, creating a new content type, and configuring the properties and associated site columns of that new content type.
The document discusses configuring a content type hub in SharePoint. A content type hub is a special site collection used to store and manage content types and site columns that can then be used across multiple site collections. It describes setting up the prerequisites for a content type hub, including having a managed metadata service and team site collection. It then provides step-by-step instructions for activating the content type syndication hub feature, creating a new content type, and configuring the properties and associated site columns of that new content type.
The document discusses configuring a content type hub in SharePoint. A content type hub is a special site collection used to store and manage content types and site columns that can then be used across multiple site collections. It describes setting up the prerequisites for a content type hub, including having a managed metadata service and team site collection. It then provides step-by-step instructions for activating the content type syndication hub feature, creating a new content type, and configuring the properties and associated site columns of that new content type.
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Configuring a content type hub
In SharePoint Server, a content type is a definition or a reusable collection of metadata,
Workflows, and other properties and settings for items in a SharePoint list or library.
The benefit of a content type is that it allows you to manage settings for a class of
Information in a centralized way and reuse those parameters across a site.
A content type defines the following attributes of an item stored in SharePoint:
Document templates (for document content types)
Properties associated with the type
Metadata associated with the type
Information management policies associated with the type
Workflows that can be started based on the type
Custom features
A content type can be associated with a site or a library. When you associate a content type
with a library or list, users can select that content type when creating new items. The
content type can be used to guide users to specify certain properties of a document in a
templated fashion or instantiate a workflow based on the item type.
Content types are local to the site where they are created.
This is where a content type hub becomes important: it is a special site collection that's used
to store content types and site columns. Content types can be used across site collections to
drive uniformity and standardization.
In the following sections, we'll prepare the prerequisites and then create and configure a
content type hub.
Configuring prerequisites
Before creating a content type hub, you need to meet the following prerequisites:
You must have a managed metadata service
You must have a site collection with the Team Site template
Setting up a content type hub
Once you have met the prerequisites for creating a content type hub, you can proceed with
Configuring the content type hub itself:
1. Launch a browser and navigate to the content type hub site collection.
2. Click the Gear icon, and then click Site information.
3. On the site information panel, select View all site settings.
4. Under Site Collection Administration, select Site collection features.
5. Locate the Content Type Syndication Hub feature and click Activate 6. Click the browser's Back button to go back to the Site Settings page.
7. In the Web Designer Galleries section, select Site content types.
8. Click Create to create a new content type
9. Fill out the fields as desired.
For example, you can set List Content Types under Select parent content type from and then
Select Item as Parent Content Type. In this example, Custom Content Type has been selected as
the type group:
10. Click OK when you've finished.
11. The creation process will redirect you to the properties of the newly created. Content type. This is where you can edit these particular details:
12. From this point on, you can click Add from new site column to create new fields for this content type, or add from existing site columns to link existing columns to this content type.
