Different Templates in SharePoint Document Library
In a lot of situations you want different templates under the new button in a SharePoint document Library:
- Click: "OK"
- Advanced settings >> Add a new document template
- Optionally: You can also choose enter the url (pre requirst the template in already uploaded in a sharepoint document library, you can do this also as step one)
- Connect the new content type to the document library where you want to see the template
- Go to your document library >> Settings >> Advanced Settings
- Mark/check: Allow Management of content types
- Go back to the document library settings (you see lot of more options now since we checked the option allow management of content types)
- Click add from existing site content types
- Select your content type we defined in de first steps of this tutorial (mine is Prince2)
- Click OK
- Optionally you can Change the new button order and default content type (see image above).
- Now users can select the template under the new button in the document library. This could also be other document template types (Excel, PowerPoint etc.)