About Content Types
Content types specify
several options — the source content format (such as Microsoft Office,
web page, or Lotus Notes document), whether the text of the content
should be indexed for searching, and how to populate values for document
properties. You should create a separate content type for each
unique combination of these options. For example, if departments use
different Microsoft Word attributes for document descriptions, you
might have to create one content type that pulls the description from
the Subject attribute and one that pulls it from the Comments attribute.
- Mapping Document Metadata to Portal Properties with Content TypesContent types specify several options — the source content format (such as Microsoft Office, web page, or Lotus Notes document), whether the text of the content should be indexed for searching, and how to populate values for document properties. You should create a separate content type for each unique combination of these options. For example, if departments use different Microsoft Word attributes for document descriptions, you might have to create one content type that pulls the description from the Subject attribute and one that pulls it from the Comments attribute.
- Mapping Content Types to Imported Content Using the Global Content Type MapThe Global Content Type Map enables you to map file extensions (for example, .doc, .txt, .html) to content types, to define which content types are applied to imported content (whether imported by a content crawler or uploaded by a user).