When does a child content type inherit a parent content type?
If Inherits is TRUE, the child content type inherits all fields that are in the parent, including fields that users have added. If Inherits is FALSE or absent and the parent content type is a built-in type, the child content type inherits only the fields that were in the parent content type when SharePoint Foundation was installed.
How does inheritance work in SQL Object Types?
2.3 Inheritance in SQL Object Types SQL object inheritance is based on a family tree of object types that forms a type hierarchy. The type hierarchy consists of a parent object type, called a supertype, and one or more levels of child object types, called subtypes, which are derived from the parent.
Do you have to include inherits attribute in SharePoint?
As you can see, in SharePoint 2010 it is not sufficient to just include the FieldRefs element to include all fields from the parent Content Type as we used to in SharePoint 2007. Instead you must include the Inherits attribute and set its value to TRUE if you want to inherit all fields from the parent Content Type.
How does inheritance work in SharePoint in 2010?
Still, after you provisioned your Content Type it doesn’t contain any fields: Content Types inheritance works a little different in SharePoint 2010 than it did in SharePoint 2007. SharePoint 2010 introduces the Inherits attribute. From the SharePoint SDK:
How is the content type Id related to content type?
The content type ID encapsulates that content type’s lineage, or the line of parent content types from which the content type inherits. Each content type ID contains the ID of the parent content type, which in turn contains the ID of that content type’s parent, and so on, ultimately back to and including the System content type ID.
What is the value of the content type group?
Specifies the content type group to which the content type is assigned. Content type groups are user-defined groups that help you organize content types into logical categories. The value can be a reference to a resource in the format `$Resources:String`. Optional **Boolean**.