Content Type Extensions Utility (Atlas 5.3+)

To assist our customers in extending Atlas content types for custom scenarios we have added a tool inside the Atlas Configuration workspace to help ensure these extensions are handled correctly. The tool simply creates your new content types as extensions of the Atlas content types (or clones of your existing custom content types) to ensure the relationship is created correctly, but adding or removing columns etc. will still need to be done via the OOTB SharePoint content type settings.

Please note that you will need to be an Atlas Administrator to perform these steps.

To get started, navigate to the Atlas Configuration workspace, go to the Site Pages library from Site contents, and open the page content-type-extension-tool.aspx. There are two actions available; Create a content type and Clone a content type:

Create a new content type

To create a new content type, first choose the Atlas content type you would like to extend from the dropdown list:

Next, add a Name and Description for your new content type. Once you're happy with these choices click the Create content type button. After a few moments, you will see a similar message to the following:

Your content type has now been created and you can go and make any required changes.

Clone a content type

You can only clone content types which you already created as extensions of Atlas content types, and they are only cloned into one workspace at a time. In my test environment I see the following in this list, but you will see an empty or different list depending on your previous content type configuration:

Once you have chosen the custom content type to be cloned, you will see the name and ID of the content type displayed:

Simply paste the URL of the workspace you want to clone the content type to, then click the Clone content type button:

You will see a spinner for a few seconds, then you should get a message to confirm the cloning is complete: