Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Administrator's Companion

Chapter 15. Managing Content Types

Introducing Content Types

Creating Content Types

Extending Content Types

Searching by Using Content Types

Summary

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 extends document and content management with content types. A content type is a collection of settings that you can apply to a type or category of content. Content types allow you to centrally create and configure properties for sets of data, such as the metadata associated with a certain type of content. For example, you can centrally define the metadata for all pictures within a site collection by using a picture content type, regardless of where those pictures are stored in that site collection. Those pictures might be stored in a picture library on Site A or ...