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Modify base content type
Hi What are the risks involved in modifying a SharePoint base content type - eg document? Is there any official Microsoft guidance on this? many thanks in advance
thanks for the prompt response!
Jon, in addition to creating a new content type as Pieter suggested, you also have the ability of removing the default content type from a library after adding another one in. If there's something about the default content type that you don't like, that'd be the way to "remove" it.
- Hi Matt, that would still give you problems with list templates and site templates. Yes you could update these but it just makes things difficult for the normal user. This is one of the reasons why in quite a few situations creating apps is better that manually using lists in SharePoint. And even without content types sometimes works
Thanks all for the replys.
I was looking for MS guidance around the risks involved in modifying a base OOTB content type.
found it here for reference
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/3/5/635302D8-FE1F-4A33-94A0-CFABBF2C5930/oit2010-whitepaper-sharepoint-content-types-best-practices.docx
- Hi John, that document is 5 years old and for SharePoint 2010. I would be careful following any documentation with things like content type hubs in SharePoint online.
