IT:AD:Sharepoint:HowTo:Create A Site Column
Summary
A Site Column is a way of defining a DropDown that can be used across several Lists.
For example: Region: Americas, Europe, Asia
Process
- On the portal site home page, click Site actions, point to Site Settings, and then click Modify All Site Settings.
- On the Site Settings page, under Galleries, click Site columns.
- On the Site Column Gallery page, click Create.
- In the Name and Type section, type the name that you want in the Column name box.
- Select the type of information you want to store in the column.
- In the Group section, select the existing group in which to store the new site column or create a new group to store the column.
- eg: Base Columns Columns that are useful in many types of lists or libraries.
- In the Additional Column Settings section, select the additional column settings you want.
- The options available in this section differ depending on the type of column that you select in the Name and Type section.
* Done.