SharePoint Lists

SharePoint Lists are the real building blocks of any SharePoint Solution. All walks of SharePoint life, whether they are a Developer, End User, Power User or Administrator will utilise Lists and their collection of List Item children.

Common examples of Lists are:

Document Libraries storing Word Documents
Page Libraries storing Pages in a Publishing Portal
Tasks Libraries storing Tasks in a Workspace

End Users

End Users will access the Lists via the Site Web UI. Information shown on pages, such as Recent News may be just consumed within a Web Part on their Home Page. Power Users may be adding new News to the News List in the background and the Users don't have any knowledge of where these lists are.

Power Users

Power Users will access the Lists via the Site Web UI and also via SharePoint Designer. As mentioned above, Power Users may be adding new News Articles via SharePoint Designer into the News List.

Developers

Developers will access the SharePoint Lists programmatically using the SharePoint Object Model. Developers may be tasked with accessing the News Items as they are created and automatically triggering a Workflow process.

Create

Creating a List programmatically using the object model
Creating Fields on a List programmatically using the object model
Attaching Content Types to a List programmatically using the object model
Creating a List View programmatically using the object model
[Creating a List using the ListInstance within a Feature]
Creating a List Template within a Feature
Creating a List Item instance programmatically using the object model
Storing List Meta Data

Read

Update

Delete

Reference material

SharePoint OOTB SPField Reference table

Administrators

Administrators will back up the Content Databases where the Lists are stored and possibly have to restore individual List Items using third party tools or by manipulating the Recycle Bin.

External References

MSDN - SharePoint Lists

Labels

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Accessing List Items using jQuery and SharePoint Web Services

Accessing List Items using SPDataSource using the object model

Accessing list items using the object model

Accessing the List Url property

Attaching Content Types to a List programmatically using the object model

Checking whether SPList Exists - workaround as List.Exist() method doesn't exist!

Creating a List Item instance programmatically using the object model

Creating a List programmatically using the object model

Creating a List Template within a Feature

Creating a List View programmatically using the object model

Creating Fields on a List programmatically using the object model

Customising List Default View - Implementing mousehover & click highlighting in Default List View

Deleting Fields on a List View programmatically using the object model

Deleting List Items programmatically based on criteria using the object model

Deleting Lists programmatically based on criteria using the object model

Displaying List Items using Content Query Web Part

Getting the Field by the Internal Name

Moving difficult list types from one environment to another.

Performing cross-site list queries

Programatically creating and assigning a SharePoint task

Setting and Getting field values of type SPFieldUser, SPFieldUrl and SPFieldLookup using extension methods

SharePoint OOTB SPField Reference table

Storing List Meta Data

Updating a List Item programmatically using the object model

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