Sometimes when you create a folder on a SharePoint library, you need more information about it, like a description or an image. This is not possible using the default “Folder” option on SP libraries. This post will help you create a custom “Folder” content type, to add images and text to your library folders. 1.     Go to: Site Settings, Site Content Types. All site content types will appear. 2.     Click on the create button to create a new content type. Once the create page is open, you can start by giving your type a name, then select the Folder Content Types, and Folder parent. Then click OK to finish creating your content type. 3.     The next thing we’ll do is create a new co...

You can use the out of the box Content Query Web Part, to control how the content is displayed for everything contained on libraries and lists. These simple steps will help you customize the main view of your library  Create your library using folders (this will help us organize the items), and go to the main view (i.e. AllItems.aspx) 2.     Go to Site Actions, Edit Page, and add the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) to your page.   3.    By default the CQWP will display all of the pages in the site.    4.     Click on edit menu, then choose to Modify the Shared Web Part and in the Web Part Tool Pane, expand Query and change the Source settings to the library where you want to...