Reviewing the Galleries Tools

Beneath the Users and Permissions section on the Site Settings page is the Galleries section, which contains links to all the galleries available for the current site, including the Site Columns, Site Content Types, Web Parts, List Templates, Master Pages and Page Layouts, Themes, and Solutions.

In general, the Site Columns and Site Content Types galleries will be actively used by an organization that is seeking to leverage the metadata capabilities provided by SharePoint 2010, while the other galleries will be used less often and can generally be ignored. Site designers will be interested in the Master Pages and Page Layout gallery and the Themes gallery. The administrator should review the List Templates gallery periodically to make sure that there aren’t too many List templates accumulating because they can clutter up the Create page that is accessed when creating new lists and libraries.

Site columns and site content types are covered in Chapter 22, “Managing Metadata and Content Types in SharePoint 2010.”

Note

Although site galleries allow administrators to delete items from the gallery, this should be done only if the administrator is confident of what the impact will be to base site functionality. A general best practice is to leave the default items in these galleries unless there is a specific business reason to delete items.

High-level descriptions are as follows:

Site Columns— A number of predefined site columns already exist and are useful to peruse and test when creating a taxonomy for the organization. Types of site columns will include some or all of the following, based on the type of site and features enabled: Base Columns, Core Contact and Calendar Columns, Core Document Columns, Core Task and Issue Columns, Custom Columns, Document and Record Management Columns, Email Submission Columns, Enterprise Keywords Group, Extended Columns, Help Columns, Page Layout Columns, PerformancePoint, Publishing Columns, Ratings, Reports, and Status Indicators. New site columns can be created from this gallery as well.

Site Content Types— A number of content types are in this gallery by default, which should be reviewed and tested so the administrator becomes familiar with their use and capabilities. Types of content types will include some or all of the following, based on the type of site and features enabled: Business Intelligence, Content Organizer Content Types, Digital Asset Content Types, Document Content Types, Document Set Content Types, Folder Content Types, Group Work Content Types, Help Content Types, List Content Types, Page Layout Content Types, PerformancePoint, Publishing Content Types, and Special Content Types.

Web Parts— This gallery contains the web parts available to administrators and designers on this site. Chapter 18, “SharePoint Foundation Versus SharePoint Server 2010,” provides a list in Table 18.9 of the web parts available in different versions of SharePoint 2010, and the selection for a specific website will depend on the type of site created and the features enabled for that site.

List Templates— This gallery is empty for new sites and site collections, but will show any List templates created for the site collection. These List templates will be available to use for creating new lists and libraries within the site collection.

Master Pages and Page Layouts— This gallery contains a variety of .xml, .aspx, and .master files and pages. SharePoint Designer 2010 is the tool of choice for editing the .aspx page layouts, and the .master pages. As shown in Figure 21.17, Modified Date and Time, Modified By, Checked Out To, Compatible UI, and Approval Status columns are shown by default.

Figure 21.17. Master Page gallery.

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Themes— A number of themes (.thmx file format) are provided that can be applied to the site to change the basic look and feel of the site.

Solutions— If any solutions have been deployed to the site collection by third-party providers or developers, they will be shown here. By default, a quota of 300 server resources are allowed for solutions, and this page shows Current Usage and Average Usage.

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