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I’ve been doing a lot of work with content type hubs and sharing them between multiple SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013 farms.  The main thing I took away from this experience is that.  Content Type publishing is easy to break and hard to...
For those of you familiar with SharePoint 2010, the content type hub is nothing new to you.  However, in SharePoint Online, the content type hub works a little differently.  The first thing to know is that a content type hub has been set up...
Visual Studio 11 introduces a new content type editor that you might find useful when building your next content type.  It starts with a SharePoint Project Item that you can pick from the New Item menu. From this screen, give your new content type...
This week, I needed to deploy lookup columns to some of my lists and as usual I wanted to avoid writing code at all costs.  As some of you may know, Kyle Kelin and I debate this topic often as he prefers a code approach.  I figured it had to...
Sometimes, you want to make absolutely sure that someone can’t go in and change your content type via the Windows SharePoint Services user interface.  If an administrator were to delete or rename columns in your content type this can cause all sorts...
I ran into this issue a while back so I thought I would post on it. I had a scenario where we wanted to create a simple content type to use as a base content type for all future content types at a comapany (i.e.: Company Base Document). At the time we...
Not too long ago, I talked about how to remove the Explorer View from a document library. As part of the post, I mentioned that I would post how to build a custom document library in the near future. That is what I am covering today. I really don't...
When implementing an ECM solution, it is often necessary to come up with a way for documents to inherit metadata from a parent folder. The main reason of doing this is so that user's can search on any of the document's properties. Other ECM solutions...
I have been working a lot with document libraries again and in this particular implementation, I had a need to create a pre-determined set of folders upon document library creation that were based upon a custom content type. I couldn't find a way...