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CM010 | Content Management – Frame It! (Part 2): Content Types

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So back in the sixth instalment of this series ( CM006|Content Management - SharePoint Lego ) I touched briefly on the concept of Content Types in SharePoint, but I didn’t really go into the black magic that makes them go vroom on a tenant level. That’s what this instalment is about. (my apologies to the Paklid community) To summarize: in part 6, I said that Content Types help us “templatize” the way we work with documents that fit into the same category. I used the example of a company needing to standardize / systematize meeting documents to make them easier to store, secure, and track for contractual / compliance purposes. For this example, I said we would need to track metadata for: Department Meeting Type Meeting Date Document Type Internal / External attendees (maybe?) I said we’d need to create a “Meetings” content type to pull together all the document properties (taxonomy) we wanted to track into a single manageable entity. I believe I used this grap