Associated Items

If you a trying to get a grip on an efficient manner of managing documents and items related to a list item or document, the chances are you will enjoy the capabilities of a batch of Microsoft SharePoint field types such as Associated Items.

The component is designed to work as a handy addition to the regular lookup field. The way it does that is by displaying all the autonomous items or the ones correlated with the current item, which is possible by resorting to various content types, such as item, task, and document. It is worth pointing out that these can be used as a starting point for your own projects since you can develop your own content types.

Then, by turning to summary columns, you should be able to generate summary values of the related items you are interested, with the process being automatic.

It should also be said that coming up with new documents or items associated with the current item should raise no difficulty if you resort to Associated Task Field, as is the case of assuming control of their lifecycles and workflows.

What differentiates this software solution from similar tools is that there is no need to leave the context of the parent item, which should obviously benefit your productivity. This idea is once again endorsed by the fact that carrying out bulk operations is possible.