Windows® Administration Resource Kit: Productivity Solutions for IT Professionals

4-4: Configure Multiple Templates for a Document Library

Solution overview

Type of solution	Procedures
Features and tools	SharePoint content types and document libraries
Solution summary	Enable a document library to expose multiple templates on the library's New button menu.
Benefits	Users can generate new documents with templates appropriate for the library.

Introduction

Many document libraries will not be specialized to one type of document. If a library should support the creation, storage, and management of multiple document types, it is reasonable to want the New button to support creating each supported document. In this solution, we use content types to achieve that goal.

Content types aren't useful only because of the columns they associate. Each ...