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What is the difference between list and document library?
Lists can have a document attachment AND the benefit of many associated preset and/or unique metadata fields. Libraries have a document but only a limited number of only preset metadata fields. Here in this article we have discussed in details about what is the difference between list and document library.
When you publish a form template to a site that is based on Windows SharePoint Services 2.0, you create a form library. A form library is a folder in which a collection of forms that are based on the same form template is stored and shared.
What are the different types of document libraries?
Another document library we have is called the Picture library. You guessed it – it is a special document library for images/photos. What makes it different from a regular document library is that it by default displays files (images) in thumbnail view – which makes sense.
When to use form library and document library?
Document Library is used to maintain the documents and Form Library is used to maintain the Forms (InfoPath Forms) If you want detail description about in which scenario we should go with Form Library then please go through this From here you can get the idea about when to use Form Library.
Document Libraries in SharePoint consist of your main/core documents. For example a word document, excel, PowerPoint, Visio, pdf, csv, notepad etc. Form libraries consist of XML forms (InfoPath Forms). The scope of answer will very huge as there are so many different scenario. But major difference is.
What is the definition of a record library?
Record library is a document library configured to “allow multiple content type”, “Document check out before editing”, “Versioning” etc.. including “Automatically declare items as records when they are added to this list”.