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library and the XSLT List View Web Part. You will also learn how to add commands to the
ribbon on list views and forms, add custom actions to list item menus, secure a list, and
use site columns and content types with lists and libraries. In Chapter 4, “Creating and
Modifying Web Pages,“ which concentrates on pages, you will learn how to create views
and how to modify the pages that allow you to display, edit, and create new list items.
Practice Files Before you can use the practice files provided for this chapter, you need
to install them from the book’s companion Web site. For more information about
practice files, see “Using the Practice Files” on page xxiii.
Creating Lists and Libraries
Just as you base a new site on a site template, you base a new list or library on a list template.
When you select a list template, you refer either to files on the file systems of the
SharePoint Web servers or to a template file in the List Template gallery, which is stored
in the Microsoft SQL Server database. Each list is created using one or more content
types.
SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 provide a number of built-in list
definitions that you can use as a basis for SharePoint lists and libraries. When you use the
browser, the list definitions are grouped into four categories: Libraries, Communications,
Tracking, and Custom Lists. When you use SharePoint Designer 2010, the list definitions
appear in the New group on the Lists And Libraries ribbon tab and are grouped as
Custom List, SharePoint List, Document Library, External List, and List From Spreadsheet.
A number of lists cannot be created by using the browser and can be seen only if you
create a site from a specific site template or activate a specific feature. For example, the
Circulations, Holidays, Time Card, Phone Call Memo, and Whereabouts list types are
available only if you create a site based on the Group Work Site template or have activated
the Group Work Lists site-level feature. Similiarly, in SharePoint Server 2010, if you
create a site based on the Visio Process Repository site template, a Process Diagrams
document library is created that has six content types attached. However, nothing stops
you from creating a list template from this document library and creating your own libraries
based on that list template. The group of lists created with the Group Work Site
template would be more complex to reproduce because of dependencies between the
different lists.
Tip List templates can be created by using the list settings page in the browser or with the
Save As Template command in the Manage group on the Lists And Libraries tab in SharePoint
Designer.