Hi everyone,
I was wondering if there was a way to group content types.
For example, if there are 2 Excel Templates that need to be available in a library, can we group them by one folder called Excel?
Thanks for your responses everyone!
The use case scenario involves over 10 templates I want as content type options so instead of having 10 different buttons in the new document dropdown, I want them to be condensed.
Here is a photo of what I’m talking about.
Not knowing more about your requirements, I’m making some assumptions. There are two tasks, the first is to create and store the content type definition. The second is to use those content types in a library. Typically I would keep them separate. If this can be used at a farm level, I would use the Content Type Hub to define the content types and put the source templates into a library on the Content Type Hub. If this is only going to be used in one site, I would put the 2 Excel Templates into a Site Assets library on the site, create the Content Types, and then add them to the library for use.
As a personal bug-a-boo I don’t ever use folders unless absolutely forced. SharePoint is far too often used as a glorified shared drive and folders are the main symptom of that problem. Use Document Sets and/or metadata columns over folders.
What Robin said above – but we could help you better if you explained your use case scenario 🙂
Are you asking if you can have more than one template applied to the library? Â If so, then the answer is yes… and you can sort by Content Type if needed.
