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Describing Content with Site Columns and Content Types
When managing large quantities of content, such as thousands of rows of data or tens of thousands of documents, metadata plays an important part in describing, sorting, and processing the content. In SharePoint, metadata is maintained in list or site columns, which can be added to lists and libraries. List columns are maintained at the list or library level. Site columns are reusable and available for all lists and libraries on a SharePoint site. A column can be, for example, a line of text, a number, a user or a group, or a centrally managed metadata term.
Different types of data in the same document library may require a different set of site columns, which is where content types come ...
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