SharePoint Basics

List

Item

An item can only belong to one list.

Column

Column Types

• Single Line of Text
• Multiple lines of Text
• Choice
• Number
• Currency
• Date and Time
• Lookup - a reference to another item ??
• Yes/No
• Person or Group
• Hyperlink or Picture
• Calculated
• External Data
• Managed Metadaa
• Audiences - controls whether the items are shown to a user. In a sense it's a simple way to create views.

Site Column

Some pre-defined columns that can be used the lists of the current site and its subsites.

View

A view can display a subset of the information in a list or a library in certain way (e.g. in a table or in a calendar) based on certain conditions.

View Types

Standard, Gantt, Calendar, Datasheet, and Access

View Properties

A view can be defined by specifying a number of view properties such as name, columns, audience, sorting criteria, filtering conditions, and so on.

Library

A library is basically a list for "special" items like documents, forms, assets etc. A library item can have any column that a general item may have, as well as some "special" properties such as author, version, content type and so on for documents.

Document

A document is basically a list item with some additional properties, most important of which is the document (i.e. file) itself.

Document Template

Document templates can be created and associated with a document library. Each document library has a default template.

Content Type

Site

A site consists of lists, libraries, and pages.

Site collections

A site collection is a top-level site plus its subsites (and the subsites of the subsites and so on).

Workspace

A workspace is a site used for certain task or event like collaboration on a document.

Workflow

Web Parts