Data Lists

Data lists provide a method to re-use common lists of items that you want to present as choices, such as lines of business or geographic locations. Data lists provide a mechanism to ensure consistent data for common user choices. You can use data lists within objects that contain properties defined as attributes, such as content types and data forms.

You can create the following data lists types.

• Static lists of items that change infrequently, such as lists of US states.

• Dynamic lists generated from content type attributes.

You can create dynamic data lists based on content type attributes. Dynamic data lists provide the means to link data from one content type to another content type.

For example, you may have a content type that contains employee demographic data, which includes postal zip code information for each employee. You can create a dynamic data list of the zip codes in which employees live by referencing the zip code attribute of the employee data content type. The dynamic lists automatically update with additional zip codes (attribute values) as more employee data is added to the content type.