SharePoint Content Types

Content Type

Content Types are the building blocks of site columns and content types defines the schema of the fields of list item ,Content types helps in reusing the site columns across the site collection, we can create content types and attach these

How to navigate Content Type page

Content types to site columns to create content type navigate to site settings page and click on site content types.

To view the list of available content types of a site collection you can directly navigate to the page "mngctype.aspx"

Content Type scope

Content types can be created based on site collection or inside child site of a site collection

The following shows the lists Ids associated with each type of list/templates of the list

Parent	Name	Id
Item	Document	0x0101
Item	Announcement	0x0104
Item	Task	0x0108
System	Item	0x01
Item	Link	0x0105
Item	Contact	0x0106
Item	Event	0x0102
Folder	Summary Task	0x012004
Document	Picture	0x010102
Folder	Discussion	0x012002
Document	Form	0x010101
Document	Wiki Page	0x010108
Document	Basic Page	0x010109
Document	Master Page	0x010105

Using AvailableContentTypes

If you want to know the avaible content type using code you can use "AvailableContentTypes" SPWeb site = SPContext.Current.Web; // iterate content types for current site and parent sites too foreach (SPContentType myctype in site.AvailableContentTypes) { }

Create content type programmatically

The following code demonstrate how to create content type programmatically

Sample code:

//access the web of the site collection

SPWeb site = SPContext.Current.Site.RootWeb;

//create content type name

string myctypeName = "hey my content test";

//access parent

SPContentType myctypeParent = site.ContentTypes["Item"];

//create content type

SPContentType myctype = new SPContentType(myctypeParent, site.ContentTypes, myctypeName);

//assigned the description and create a group

myctype.Description = "I am doing content type programatically";

myctype.Group = "My Content Type Group";

//Add to site collection

site.ContentTypes.Add(myctype);