SharePoint power users, administrators, and developers often need to reference a particular type of content throughout a site collection. With Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, content types were introduced as a means to manage content and ease reuse within sites. This book examines the power of SharePoint content types and walks through the process of creating one in a sample scenario.

Within many organizations, different groups employ slightly different versions of the same solution in a SharePoint site collection. Content types offer normalization and management for these solutions and allow for greater reuse throughout the site collection. This book is the only one available that exclusively examines SharePoint content types. Within this book, you will find the following information:

A detailed description of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 content types, with an emphasis on document content types.
A step-by-step process to implement a sample performance appraisal solution with a document content type.
Examples of how to programmatically manipulate a content type.