Enable Auditing for a specific document library and list.

Environment: SharePoint 2013 Enterprise

Requirement:

• Enable audit for a document library to get the number of times the document is opened
• Enable audit for a list to get the total number of times the item is edited.

Solution/Steps:

1. Go to Document library > Settings > Library Settings
2. Click Information management policy settings

3. Click on Document under Content Type
4. Provide the necessary details and select “Opening or downloading documents, viewing items in lists, or viewing item properties” under Enable Auditing

5. Click OK
6. Navigate to the list where you want to set the policy
7. Click List Settings > Select Information management policy settings

8. Select the List from the policy settings
9. Provide the required details and select Editing items under Enable Auditing

10. To view the report, navigate to the top level site and Site Settings
11. Select Audit log reports under Site Collection Administration

12. Click Run a custom report under Custom Reports section

13. Select the required events to view the report for

14. Click Ok

15. Click on “Click here to view the report”

Note: Site collection administrators page views or edit are not tracked.

Create and associate multiple content types for a library

Environment: SharePoint 2013

Requirement: Create multiple content types for a document library to have different metadata/columns.

Introduction: The following steps are to create sample content types to store Budget and Invoice details in a document library.

Solution:

Create a site content type named ’Budget’. The parent content type can be selected based on the requirement. For example, if you are settings this for a document library then use Document Content Type as parent and if you setting this for a list, then select List content type.

Add columns that are specific to the created content type.

Create another content type named ‘Invoice’

Add columns that are specific to Invoice content type.

Navigate to the document library where you want to associate this content type.

Click Library > Library Settings > Advanced Settings and allow management of content type.

Associate the Budget and Invoice content types to the library in Library Settings page.

After associating the content types, you can see the content type column when you add a new item in the document library. The column that are created for each content type will get displayed based on the 
content type you select.

Upload document and submit metadata for different content types.