The presentation below contains a walkthrough the basics of what are content types in SharePoint 2010 and what’s new. Enjoy!
Additional notes…
How to set-up Content Type Syndication Hubs
- Create a site collection to host the hub. (I create a standard one for all admin-y stuff – http://servername/sites/admin/
- At the root of the site collection, go into Site Settings | Site Collection Features and activate ‘Content Type Syndication Hub’
- Go to Central Admin | Manage Service Applications
- Select the Managed Metadata Service (not the connection and don’t click the URL, select by clicking to the side of it)
- Click on Properties in the ribbon and enter the URL for the syndication hub (http://servername/sites/admin/ and click OK
- Select the Managed Metadata Service Connector
- Click on Properties in the ribbon and check the box next to ‘Consumes content types from the…. (should show the URL)
- To see images showing the above steps, visit Setting up Content Type Syndication Hubs – Furuknap’s blog, Dec 09
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This was of great help.. thankyou sharon
you’re welcome Uzair, thanks for taking the time to feedback.