SharePoint Administration: Publish Content Types to all Site Collections.
Solution:
SharePoint allows its users to create the enterprise content types that
could be shared between the other site collections. The
way to publish
the content types
is to divide
the site collections into
two types; the
one who will
act as content
hub and other
act as the
listeners.
Managed
metadata service is used to configure site collection as a content hub. The
following is the series of steps for configuring content type as an enterprise;
1. Make a Content Hub
- Consider that there is already an a site collection available named as ‘http://content-hub’.
- Go to Central Administration, click the Application Management, under Service Applications, and click the Manage Service Applications. Select ‘Managed Metadata service’. Go to its properties and enter the http://content-hub url into the Content type hub option.
- Now select the Managed Metadata Service Connection, and then click Properties. What is important is “consume content type from the content type gallery” option. Make sure that it is being marked.
2. Publishing and Consuming Content Types across
Site Collection
- Go the content hub site collection.
- Activate the “Content type syndication Hub” of the site collection. Go to Site Settings -> Site Collection Features. Ensure that ‘Content type syndication hub site collection feature’ is activated.
- Goto to Site Actions->Site Settings->Under Galleries->Site Content Type->Create a new content type.
- Once content type is created, Click the Manage content type publishing and Check the Publish Radio button and say OK. This will publish the content type.
- Goto Central Administration->Monitoring->Review job definition and run the timer jobs i.e. Content Type Hub and Content Type Subscriber.
- Now content types are published.
- Now goto to the subscriber site and Go to Site Settings | Site Collection Administration | Content Type Publishing. Check the Refresh all Published Content types on next update and say OK. Now your subscriber site should also contain enterprise content types published by http://content-hub.
