SharePoint Content Types - FULL Walkthrough Series!

[@KasperBoLarsen]

I envy your ability to present an advanced subject in a way than everyone can understand. Excellent work 😂

[@stevecorey365]

Thanks so much, Kasper!!!

[@ChasHoff]

This was very helpful. I finally see the bigger picture of how content types can help our scenario. Although, it seems like a flaw to me that the republishing of a content type in the gallery can’t automatically be applied to lists or libraries. I get that you might want the option to disable it at the list or library level for certain use cases, but to have to manually go to each and every library where the content type is used (if you can even remember them, although I guess the KQL can help with that) and apply an updated content type seems like it’s going to not work out well in the long run. Admins may reasonably think they republished it so it should dynamically apply, and site owners won’t even know a content type needs to be updated unless they happen to go into that part of the site settings. Am I missing something, or is this the way it is?

[@stevecorey365]

I agree that it's a bad system. I expect MS to improve this eventually.

[@KeyAndLock77]

Good work Steve

[@stevecorey365]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@XJones-xv6ic]

Very thorough walkthrough! Do you know wether it is possible in any way to make a new content type available in the personal OneDrive sites of people in an organization? I have published a new document template from the content type gallery and I don't have the impression that there exists any way to make this new template available in users' personal OneDrive. Thanks in advance!

[@stevecorey365]

Not that I'm aware of. OneDrive is for more simpler storage, even though it's backed by SharePoint. If you want the fanciness, stick with SharePoint.

[@squareggs]

Fantastic thank you 🤩

[@stevecorey365]

You’re welcome!

[@kozepz]

Thank you, this was very valuable. I want to apply this in our environment. This is 1 tenant and 1 organization, but in reality, these are 2 different organizations. How can I add a separate template for each of the organizations and then assign it to all existing sites per organization?

[@stevecorey365]

Create one content type to house all the fields in common. Then, create one content type for each of the orgs, and use the common fields content type you just created as the base content type. That should give you the separation you need, while still basing everything off the same base content type.

[@kozepz]

@@stevecorey365 Thanks Steve, I now know how I can spend my Sunday 😀