1. Introduction to Content Types
BUILDING AN EVENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

2. The Challenge
 RG manages all sorts of events at the SOFMC arena
 Hockey Games
 Concerts
 Marty the Marmot Appearances
 RG wishes to view all events in a single calendar but also to view the
data sliced and diced to suit
 Need access to it for all staff

3. The Answer
 A calendar view in SharePoint
 Individual, customized Event Content Types

4. Planning
 Calendar List or Custom List?
 Gather requirements for each ‘event’
 Implement
 Test

5. What are Content Types?
SITE Columns
• PO Number
• Vendor
• PO Approval Status
• Etc.
Template
Purchase
Order
IRM
Information Rights
Workflows Management
• PO Approval Routing • PO’s Cannot be Printed
• Etc. • PO’s Do Allow Cut/Paste
• Etc.

6. What are Content Types?
item
Document Contact Appointment Task RG Event
Marty
RG Document
Appearance
RG PO Hockey Game
RG PR
RG Fax

7. Where should I put them?
 Placement is important (‘top down’ only)
 Great for reusable content
portal.rgnetwork.ca
Corporate Arena Knowledge Base
HR Finance Events
Public documents
Marty’s Den
Private documents

8. Inventory
 We Need…
 Custom List
 Content Types (2 to start)
 Site Columns (reuse some, create others)

9. Tweaking the Presentation
 Custom Views
 Calendar Overlays
 Rock it with Dashboards

10. Let’s do it!

11. What Might We have done differently?
 Content Type Hub
 Managed Metadata Service
…SharePoint 2010 Server only though