Overview

Each document is of some type. Each document type has its own:

•	fields (data structure)

•	editing form layout

•	transformations (design)

•

queries

and other settings.

Document types are fully customizable - you can add, modify and delete custom fields. The advantage of using custom document types is that you can define custom structure of documents and store content (data) separated from design. This can be done in Site Manager -> Development -> Document types.

General properties of a document type

Document type display name	The name of the site displayed to the users.
Document type code name	The name of the site used in the code.
New page	URL of the page that will be used for creating new documents of this type.
Editing page	URL of the editing page that will be used when the document is displayed in the editing mode, using the Page tab.
Editing form	URL of the editing page that will be used when the document is displayed in the editing mode, using the Form tab.
Preview page	URL of the editing page that will be used when the document is displayed in the preview mode.
List page	URL of the editing page that will be used when the document is displayed in the list mode.
Use publish from/publish to	Indicates if publish from/to fields should be displayed for this document type.
Show template selection	Indicates if users must select some page template first when they create a new document of this type.
Default page template	The page template used by default when the document is created. If no page template is specified, the document inherits the parent page template.
Behaves as Page (menu item) type	Indicates if the document type has similar behavior as Page (menu item) document type. The default view mode is the Page tab for such document type, viewer web parts are automatically set to display the child documents if the path is not configured and the document does not inherit its parent template by default.

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