Friday, November 07, 2008

SharePoint: Content Type Guidelines

I've collected some recommended practices for SharePoint content types for my current customer. The guidelines are available here: ContentTypeGuidelines.pdf

The main advice is that content types must be based on your information architecture (IA) and goverened, to make it easy for your users to both contribute content and to drive findability across that content.

The general guideline for evolving the content type IA is to never change or rename content types or their aspects, make new ones and hide the old ones.
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 6, 2009 at 4:12 PM

    Hey.

    Can you fix the link to the PDF please

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  2. Kjell-Sverre JerijærviApril 11, 2009 at 7:55 PM

    Thanks, fixed the link

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  3. AnonymousMay 4, 2009 at 4:55 AM

    hi, I'd appreciate if you can fid the link to the file, the pdf is still not corrupted
    thx

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  4. Kjell-Sverre JerijærviMay 4, 2009 at 7:59 AM

    It's working and have been tested OK by others. Please clear your browser cache or hard refresh the post to load the fixed link:

    http://cid-4cbe2e9714073667.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Offentlig/ContentTypeGuidelines.pdf

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  5. AnonymousApril 16, 2012 at 2:57 PM

    Many thanks for this helpful series of essays on sharepoint governance - very useful.

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