Baris's SharePoint Blog

There is a not well known feature of SharePoint I want to show. You can create different default list views for different content types. As an example you have a top folder for specific orders which is automatically created by your customer when he orders something. Within this folder you and your customer exchange documents. You goal is that when someone enters the order list he only sees his folder. 1. Attempt My first opinion would be to create a list view with a specific filter. But here begins the problem: How should the filter look like ? If you set " Created By = [Me] " the customer will only see documents and folders he created. When you use " Created By = [Me] & Contenttype = Folder " he would not see subfolders created by others. 2. Attempt The more elegant way is to use different content types for top folders and subfolders. Based on the content types you can create different default views. 2.1 Create Content Types So create a new con...

With Content Type Hubs in SharePoint 2010 you can now easily distrubute your content types over all webapplications and sitecollections. Now you can define a single sitecollection in which you manage your content types. All other sitecollections can consume from this site. 1. Create Content Type Hub Before you can use Enterprise Content Types you have to define a Content Type Hub. The Content Type Hub is a single arbitrary sitecollection. The probably best way is to create a new sitecollection with the blank site template for this purpose. 2. Configure Service After you have created the sitecollection you have to tell the service where to consume the content types. The service which manages the enterprise content types is the "Managed Metadata Service". If you dont't have this service, you have to create it first. If the service already exists follow these steps: Go to central administration Application Management Service Application - Manage service appli...