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8. Working with Site Columns, Content Types, and Term Sets

Tony Smith

(1)Stormville, New York, USA

In the first seven chapters, we discussed creating and managing sites, which act as containers for content managed through SharePoint; pages, which present content and information to users; and lists and libraries, which are used to store content managed in SharePoint. In this chapter, we discuss site columns, content types, and term sets, all of which are used to standardize and centralize the management of list details and document metadata.

We use site columns to create centrally managed column definitions that can be reused across lists and libraries throughout ...

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