What is a Content
type?
- Content types are reusable collection of metadata.
- Content types are available at site collections and site level. When you create a content type and add it to a site's content type collection, the new content type becomes available to any child site and also to the site where it was created.
- You never create a content type from scratch. Instead, you always select an existing content type as the basis for any new content type that you create.
- When you add a content type to list. Microsoft SharePoint foundation makes a local copy of site content type and adds the local copy to the list. This local instance is called "List Content type".
- To add a content type to a list, you must have List Administrator rights to that list.
