Chapter 4. Customizing and Implementing Property Types in Windows SharePoint Services

SharePoint is all about user empowerment. One of the best features SharePoint has to empower users is its lists. Users can quickly and easily create a list to hold documents, issues, tasks, announcements, events, and more; the variety of default lists is quite extensive. Every list in SharePoint can have properties. In this chapter, we will discuss a limitation of properties and a way to overcome that limitation.

Ten different property types can be created for any given list. Share-Point offers a wide and varied selection of list properties. Users can create text, date, lookup, hyperlink, and calculated fields, among others. Even though SharePoint gives us so ...

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