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Libraries and metadata: The basics

Libraries and metadata: The basics

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Libraries and metadata: The basics

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- [Voiceover] Libraries are a specialized type of list app and there are different types of libraries. First, we have picture libraries, which are used to be able to upload images and to display them. We have asset libraries, which are used for rich media, audio files, videos files, and can also include pictures, if you wish. Wiki page libraries are collections of wiki pages that can used to create almost anything, an interactive help system, a knowledge base, customer service request, but wiki pages are also what are used to create SharePoint sites in SharePoint 2016. So you've been working with wiki pages already. Data connection libraries are exactly what they sound like, they are used to store files that contain information used to make external connections. And we have form libraries. Form libraries are most often created, not directly as an app, but using Microsoft Infopath, where you would create a form in infopath and publish it. And that act of publishing creates the form…

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