I’m working in a SharePoint 2013 on premises installation, and I needed to get the ContentType back from a REST call. Content Type is often the most important piece of metadata in a list or library, with the detailed metadata for the Content Type coming in as secondary. It certainly matters which Content Type you…
This is yet another in the “Things that Make You Go Hmm…” category. If I only had a nickel… I would think that one of the most common needs on a search results page would be to add a refiner by Content Type. After all, we all have robust, sensical information architectures in place to…
This is a simple thing, but because at the moment it’s sort of invisible, you may need a little help understanding it. The Content Type Hub is a nice capability that lets you create your Site Columns and Content Types in one centralized Site Collection for syndication across your farm. It’s an excellent idea to…
I’ve been searching on and off for days on this one. When you create a Content Type based on the Document Set Content Type, it’s fairly common to want to restrict the Content Types which are allowed to be added to the Document Set. Here’s an example. Say you have a Document Set Content Type…
My pal Tasha Scott (@TashasEv) tweeted a question today about how to get at the display name for a Content Type on a NewForm: Hello Gentlemen, As requested, I am posting my query from Twitter in regards to trying to pass the Content Type of an item into the PlaceHolderPageTitleinTitleArea, um, area of a New…