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When to publish a form template as a site content type?
Publish a form template as a site content type When you publish a form template as a site content type, you enable users to assign multiple form templates to a single document library or to assign the form template to multiple libraries across a site collection.
The location is the web address of the template on the site, relative to the name of the site. For example, if your template is called Watermark.dotx, and you add it to the Forms folder of the Shared Documents document library, you would enter the following:
How to create a site content type in SharePoint?
The following procedure describes how to create a site content type by publishing a form template to a server that is running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Save your form template. On the File menu, click Publish. In the Publishing Wizard, click To a SharePoint server with or without InfoPath Forms Services, and then click Next.
How to create a custom template for SharePoint?
In your site, at the bottom of the Document or Form Library Advanced Settings page, and select OK. Create and save your custom template in a program that is compatible with SharePoint. Make note of its location, and then switch to SharePoint.
How to decide where to publish custom form?
If you publish the form to one of your personal folders, it’s available only to you when you are using that folder. Contact, Post, Task, and Journal forms are examples of the types of forms that are typically associated with a folder.
Content type publishing Content types are defined for a site, and apply at that site and its subsites. But sometimes, you want to use a particular content type on multiple sites, or across site collections. For example, your organization might use a standard template for documents that requires standardized metadata.
When do you add a site content type to a library?
When you add a site content type to a list or library, it is called a list content type. The list content type is a child of the site content type from which it was created. It inherits all the attributes of its parent site content type, such as its document template, read-only setting, workflows, and columns.