Content Type Hierarchy

The three most important built-in content types are Item, Document, and Folder. The reason these three types are important is that SharePoint Foundation enforces certain rules about how content types that are derived from them can be used. You can assign content types to list items, documents, and folders.

1. What are content types?
2. What are site content types?
3. What is list content type in SharePoint?
4. What is site column and content type?
5. What are the four types of content?
6. What is the SharePoint hierarchy?
7. What is content type in HTML?
8. What is custom content type in SharePoint?
9. What is content type hub in SharePoint?
10. What is site column?
11. What is the relationship between site columns and list columns?

What are content types?

A content type is a reusable collection of metadata (columns), workflow, behavior, and other settings for a category of items or documents in a Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 list or document library. Content types enable you to manage the settings for a category of information in a centralized, reusable way.

What are site content types?

A content type is a reusable collection of site columns and the other settings for a category of items or documents in a List/library which is used for encapsulation. Content types are the same in SharePoint 2013/2016 or SharePoint Online.

What is list content type in SharePoint?

When you add a site content type to a list or library, it is called a list content type. The list content type is a child of the site content type from which it was created. It inherits all the attributes of its parent site content type, such as its document template, read-only setting, workflows, and columns.

What is site column and content type?

Site columns (metadata) can be encapsulated within a content type to allow for reusable structure or independently added to sites and lists. At its most basic level, a content type is a collection of settings which can be applied to content. They are reusable since content types are independent of sites and lists.

What are the four types of content?

It's important to note that the four content categories—attraction, authority, affinity, and action—are not mutually exclusive, and a single piece of content will often fit in multiple categories.

What is the SharePoint hierarchy?

Classic SharePoint architecture is typically built using a hierarchical system of site collections and sub-sites, with inherited navigation, permissions, and site designs. Once built, this structure can be inflexible and difficult to maintain. In the modern SharePoint experience, sub-sites are not recommended.

What is content type in HTML?

The text/html content type is an Internet Media Type as well as a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) content type. Using HTML in MIME messages allows the full richness of Web pages to be available in e-mail. text/plain [RFC1521] The text/plain content type is the generic subtype for plain text.

What is custom content type in SharePoint?

As a site owner, you create or customize a content type with the characteristics that you want, such as a certain template, specific metadata, and so on. For example, when a user chooses an item from the New Item or New Document menu, you can ensure that customized content is used.

What is content type hub in SharePoint?

A content type hub enables you to publish SharePoint content types across a farm. You can use a content type hub to centrally manage key content types that you want to use in multiple site collections.

What is site column?

A Site Column is a template of a configured column. By creating a Site Column, you can reuse it anywhere else in the site and not have to manually rebuild its configuration at each reuse. When creating a new column in a list or library, you have a choice to either "Create column" or "Add from existing site columns".

What is the relationship between site columns and list columns?

As we've seen above, list columns are easy to create, but live in a "container" which is the list/library you create(d) it within. Site columns on the other hand, are created at the site level, and available to reuse from the site they're created in (as the starting point).