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List element (Site)

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Applies to: SharePoint 2016 | SharePoint Foundation 2013 | SharePoint Online | SharePoint Server 2013

Specifies a list instance to include in sites created through a site definition configuration or Web template configuration.

<List
  CustomSchema = "Text"
  Description = "Text"
  EmailAlias = "Text"
  EnableContentTypes = "TRUE" | "FALSE"
  EnableMinorVersions = "TRUE" | "FALSE"
  FeatureId = "GUID"
  ForceCheckout = "TRUE" | "FALSE"  HyperlinkBaseUrl = Text
  QuickLaunchUrl = Text
  RootWebOnly = "TRUE" | "FALSE"
  Title = "Text"
  Type = Integer
  Url = "Text"
  VersioningEnabled = "TRUE" | "FALSE">
</List>

Elements and attributes

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attributes

Attribute Description
CustomSchema
Optional Text.
Description
Optional Text. Provides a description for the list. This attribute must be specified within a configuration in an Onet.xml file when you are adding a custom list definition to a site definition. The value of this attribute overrides the value contained with the DefaultDescription element of a Schema.xml file.
EmailAlias
Optional Text. If email notification is enabled, specifies the email address to use to notify to the owner of an item when an assignment has changed or the item has been updated.
EnableContentTypes
Optional Boolean. TRUE to enable management of content types in lists created through the list definition.
EnableMinorVersions
Optional Boolean. TRUE to enable minor versions for items in the list.
FeatureId
Optional GUID. Specifies the GUID of a Feature to associate with the list.
ForceCheckout
Optional Boolean. TRUE to require that documents be checked out from the document library in order to be edited.
HyperlinkBaseUrl
Optional Text.
QuickLaunchUrl
Optional Text. Specifies the URL of the view page to open for the list through Quick Launch navigation.
RootWebOnly
Optional Boolean. TRUE to specify that the list created from the definition exists only in the root website of a site collection.
Title
Required Text. The generic display name of the list.
Type
Optional Integer. Specifies the list template type of the list.

The following values are the default list template types.

100 Generic list
101 Document library
102 Survey
103 Links list
104 Announcements list
105 Contacts list
106 Events list
107 Tasks list
108 Discussion board
109 Picture library
110 Data sources
111 Site template gallery
112 User Information list
113 Web Part Gallery
114 List template gallery
115 XML Form library
116 Master pages gallery
117 No-Code Workflows
118 Custom Workflow Process
119 Wiki Page library
120 Custom grid for a list
130 Data Connection library
140 Workflow History
150 Gantt Tasks list
200 Meeting Series list
201 Meeting Agenda list
202 Meeting Attendees list
204 Meeting Decisions list
207 Meeting Objectives list
210 Meeting text box
211 Meeting Things To Bring list
212 Meeting Workspace Pages list
301 Blog Posts list
302 Blog Comments list
303 Blog Categories list
1100 Issue tracking
1200 Administrator tasks list

This attribute corresponds to the Type attribute of the ListTemplate element.
Url
Optional Text. Specifies the path to the root of the directory that contains the ASPX files to which the list definition applies, relative to the root URL of the website.
VersioningEnabled
Optional Boolean. TRUE to specify within a Schema.xml file that versioning is enabled by default for document libraries that are created through the list definition. Setting this attribute has no effect on existing document libraries. If TRUE, versioning can still be disabled for a document library on the New Document Library page when the library is being created.

Child elements

Parent elements

Occurrences

  • Minimum: 0
  • Maximum: Unbounded