SharePoint provides various templates or site types so that you can create sites. These templates use similar building blocks but target different scenarios. They differ from each other in various ways, such as how they store information, how they present it, and even the nature of the functionality that they have to offer.

This recipe shows you how to create a site using the Team site template, which is the most commonly used site template for team collaboration.

Getting ready

Your organization should do the following before you can create sites from the SharePoint start page:

• Grant you access to SharePoint as part of the Microsoft 365 suite
• Enable the creation of sites from the SharePoint start page
• Enable the creation of modern sites in your Microsoft 365 environment

How to do it...

To create a new site from the SharePoint start page, follow these steps:

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The Site Contents page in SharePoint provides a one-stop view of all the lists, libraries, and other apps on their site. Any subsites within that site will also appear here. Provided you have appropriate access, you can also add new lists, libraries, pages, apps, and subsites to the site from this page.

Getting ready

You should have at least Read or View access to a site in order to be able to view the contents within that site.

How to do it...

To view the contents of your site, follow these steps:

1. Browse to your site in SharePoint.
2. Click on the settings icon in the top-right corner of any page on the site and then click on the Site contents menu option, as shown in the following screenshot:

3. You will be directed to the Site contents page, as shown in the following screenshot:

That's it!...

SharePoint uses lists as the primary way to store information that end users such as you or I create. Almost all of the information in SharePoint is stored in some type of list.

This recipe shows how to create a new list from scratch. For illustrative purposes, we will use this list to store details of the products from our company's product line. This list will contain the following columns to store the product information:

• Title
• Code Name
• Product Line
• Date Released
• Notes

Getting ready

You will need either an Edit, Design, or Full Control permission on the site where you'd like to create the list.

How to do it...

To create a new SharePoint list, follow these steps:

1. Browse to the Site contents page for the site where you'd like to create the list.
2. Click the New menu and then click List.
3. Provide a descriptive...

You can add items to a list in various ways. These methods will be covered in greater detail in Chapter 4, Working with Lists and Libraries in SharePoint Online. This recipe will show the most commonly used method to add items to the representative list we created as part of the previous recipe. Even though this recipe uses theProduct Listas an example, the steps here are true for other scenarios where there's a need to store data in SharePoint.

Getting ready

You will need Contribute permissions or higher for the list you would like to add the new item to.

How to do it...

To add a new item to a list, follow these steps:

1. Browse to the list where you'd like to add the new item.
2. Click the New button above the section that shows the title of the list.

A library is a secure place in SharePoint where you can upload, create, and manage files for online sharing and collaboration with your team. Just like lists, each library comes with key built-in columns that store information about each file, such as who created the file and when, and who last modified it and when. You can always add to the columns in a library, just as you would do for a list. Almost all site types ship with a default library so that you can store the documents within that site. Libraries can be of different types. A Document library is the most commonly used library and, as the name suggests, it is used to store, manage, and share documents.

For this recipe, we will create a document library from scratch. We will use this library to store marketing documents. This library will enable you to classify each document using the Document Typeand Document Classification columns.