3.3.7.4.1. Add New Site Column

The SharePortals interface allows you to generate new Fields against a Record Type with a few basic options, however you may want to create a Field (Site Column) through SharePoint directly.

The following is a list of Fields which can be created within SharePortals, and the additional SharePoint site column equivalents:

*Certain site columns which can only be created directly within SharePoint may have limited or unexpected functionality within the SharePortals interface. Calculated columns will not render within SharePortals as these fields are dynamically generated when viewing a SharePoint screen.

Add an Advanced Field Type to a Record Type

1. Within Advanced Record Type Management (Content type gallery), find your Record Type in the list and click its name. If the record type was generated by SharePortals during installation or within the *Record Type Management *screen, the record type name will start with the word SharePortals.

*All record types which start with the word SharePortals have the word stripped from the SharePortals interface. This is to avoid conflict with SharePoints own basic content type names e.g the application creates a SharePortals Contact which is different from the SharePoint standard Contact.

2. Click Add site column then click Create new site column which should open a screen similar to below.

3. Enter a name for the site column, an optional description, and ensure the Category is set to Betasoft SharePortals Column as shown below.

4. Select from the list of column types, and depending on your selection you will have a number of additional options from those available within SharePortals. For example, for a currency field you will be presented with the following additional options:

5. Click More Options to see additional settings and optionally configure.

*Column validation is handled within the SharePoint interface, therefore is not a supported option within SharePortals.