{"id":92,"date":"2020-02-17T16:12:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T15:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/metashare-help-admin-manual-how-to-create-a-site-content-type\/"},"modified":"2024-01-12T13:43:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T12:43:25","slug":"how-to-create-a-site-content-type","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/metashare\/get-started\/metadata\/how-to-create-a-site-content-type\/","title":{"rendered":"How to create a site content type"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here you find instructions on how to create a site content type in SharePoint, after having clicked on any of MetaShare&#8217;s &#8220;Create content type&#8221; buttons that will bring you to this page:<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"908\" height=\"604\" class=\"wp-image-8748\" style=\"width: px;\" src=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Create-content-type-page.jpg\" alt=\"Create content type page\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Create-content-type-page.jpg 908w, https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Create-content-type-page-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Create-content-type-page-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 908px) 100vw, 908px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Give the content type a meaningful &#8220;Name&#8221;:<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"572\" height=\"61\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3532\" src=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-255-1.png\" alt=\"Give the content type a meaningful name\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-255-1.png 572w, https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-255-1-300x32.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><br>A recommendation, to more easily differentiate document and workspace content types, is to give them a prefix, e.g.:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Document &#8211; general<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Workspace &#8211; general <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Depending on what content type you want to create you choose different values in the first two drop downs:\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" style=\"list-style-type:lower-alpha\">\n<li>If the content type applies to documents or workspaces:\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" style=\"list-style-type:lower-roman\">\n<li>In the first drop-down, select &#8220;Document Content Types&#8221;:<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"203\" height=\"44\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3518\" src=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-256-1.png\" alt=\"Select a parent content type from\"><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the second drop-down, select &#8220;Document&#8221;:<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"144\" height=\"41\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3520\" src=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-257-1.png\" alt=\"Select a parent content type\"> <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If the content type applies to rich media, e.g. if you want to have a workspace for your digital images, where you want columns such as &#8220;Date Picture Taken&#8221;:\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" style=\"list-style-type:lower-roman\">\n<li>In the first drop-down, select &#8220;Digital Asset Content Types&#8221;:<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"202\" height=\"42\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3526\" src=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-955-1.png\" alt=\"Select a parent content type from\"><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the second drop-down, select &#8220;Image&#8221;, &#8220;Rich Media Asset&#8221; or &#8220;Video Rendition&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the drop-down &#8220;Existing group&#8221;, select &#8220;MetaShare Content Types&#8221;, or any other meaningful group that you use to group your site content types. If it is the first time that you create a content type, you will have to select the &#8220;New group&#8221; and type in a new name for the group:<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"277\" height=\"126\" class=\"wp-image-8751\" style=\"width: px;\" src=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Put-this-site-content-type-into.jpg\" alt=\"Put this site content type into\"><br>The name of the group that you select does not have any effect on the behavior of the content type, it&nbsp;just makes it easier to find them if they are grouped into meaningful names. If you&nbsp;manage a larger organisation with several legal entities, you can easily separate the content types by adding them into different groups. If you do not select a group, SharePoint will by default&nbsp;put the&nbsp;site column&nbsp;into a group called &#8220;Custom content types&#8221;.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click the &#8220;OK&#8221; button.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Once the content type is created you can follow these instructions to:\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" style=\"list-style-type:lower-alpha\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/adminmanual\/how-to-add-columns-to-a-site-content-type\/\">Add columns to the content type<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/adminmanual\/how-to-define-mandatory-columns\/\">Define mandatory\/optional columns<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/adminmanual\/how-to-set-the-column-order\/\">Set the column order<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here you find instructions on how to create a site content type in SharePoint, after having clicked on any of MetaShare&#8217;s &#8220;Create content type&#8221; buttons that will bring you to this page:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":10709,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-92","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"no-featured-image-padding"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10935,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92\/revisions\/10935"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}