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Editing Site Columns on Sub-Sites Doesn't modify the parent Site Column
Dean_Gross yeah I keep running into the concept of Content Types everywhere I turn. I have read a lot about them but am struggling to figure out how to actually implement them in my situation. Do you know of any good tutorials?
I probably just need to try poking at it until I fumble my way to some sort of understanding - like I am with Site Columns. I think I have remade some of these columns 4 times now..... which means any views I made or metadata I applied is all worthless.
Take a look at https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Introduction-to-content-types-and-content-type-publishing-E1277A2E-A1E8-4473-9126-91A0647766E5?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US and https://collab365.community/understanding-content-type-hub-cth-in-sharepoint-2013/. The 2nd article shows how to set up a Content Type hub in SP 2013, but that is done for you in SPOnline so you can just focus on the first few sections of the article.
My strong recommendation is to start with something simple. Just create one CT and play around with it, it is very easy to get too elaborate too soon and this can cause a lot of pain and rework.
Dean_Gross just dipping my toes into content types. I've watched several tutorials and read several articles but haven't come across one thing in particular.
Is there a way to set default lookup metadata on a specific content type?
I think that you may need to make the group of Content Types the Default Content Type Group for the List you're looking at
Dean_Gross let me try to understand:
For example:
I have a list of all the models of widget my company makes and add site-columns to that list that are themselves looking up in other lists for the choice of project number and market code for example.
If I select the project number and market code in this list, does that mean the model number (title) is always associated with that project number and market code whenever that model number is selected as the metadata to apply to a file?
This would seem to be a way to force a default on specific metadata.....