Adding Metadata in SharePoint

Sometimes you want to store extra metadata in SharePoint for lets say a SharePoint web instance. Serge has a post about this topic; for a SharePoint web you can easily use the Properties property (so obvious, but I wasn't aware of this property!). But I have some doubts for the SharePoint List, Serge recommends to add an extra field. But this field would exist for each item in the list, a little bit overkill I think... :-)

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  • Hi jan,



    With the list I ment just like with listings in the portal, you can just add another field. If you want extra data on a list itself, store it in the property bag of the SPWeb, you already know which lists are in your site. In the property bag you could prefix with list_<internal list name>_PropertyName to prevent collision.

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