[Autogenerated] high in this lesson. I'm
gonna show you how to add a choice column
to a list. And I also want to add that
this process is the same with the
SharePoint library. We're gonna go to our
employees list and we're going to add that
new column. The choice column and what
we're going to do is create a column for
the employment status of our employees
were gonna go here to AD Column. We're
gonna click on that and go down the list
to we find choice. Once we open that, we
get the panel, appear to create a column
on the right, and we have to give our
column a name. It is a required field.
You'll see the little red asterisk there.
So what we need to do is give it a name
and we're going to Like I said, call it
employment status. We can go ahead and
give it a description if we want, and the
type is choice. That's what we selected.
Now we have to enter in the choices we
don't have to do. Three. We can do 1 to 10
whatever it is, but it's gonna create a
drop down list Now we just so happen to
Onley have three choices and they're going
to be full time, part time and contract
now. Do we want people to add values
manually? Do we want to give them the
opportunity to add in their own value? In
this case, I'm going to say no. But it is
there. Do we wanna have a default value?
Well, we're gonna by default, say none,
but we could choose to show one of these
other ones by default. Now, we're also
going to go ahead and click on more
options so that we can see what other
options that we have. We have the choice
of a drop down menu or a radio button. Now
I like the drop down menu. So that's what
we're going to stick with. Do we want to
allow multiple selections that we want
people to be able to select Maur options?
This would be great if you had the radio
button, but we just want one. So we're
gonna leave that off and do we want to
require that this column contains
information Yes or no? Well, we're going
to say yes for this one, and then do we
want to enforce unique values. No, no, no,
no, no. Because there's gonna be a lot of
people in each of these categories and we
want to add this to all content types were
going to say yes and we'll click, save.
And there is our new column. Now, we don't
have any information in it. And I know we
said this was supposed to be a required
column. Well, let's go ahead and see what
happens when we refresh the page. Oh, boy,
we got a yellow line here. That's an
indicator. If we scroll over, we have this
yellow informational box here that says
this is required info. If we click on it,
we see that this item is missing required
information. And if we scroll down, we'll
see here that the employment status is
there, Select an option and we can click
on that. And Michael here, we know is full
time. So we will turn that off and we see
that it is there now, Now we have a lot of
these records that we have to do. But
rather than open up each one of these
individually and making that choice a
really good thing, to do and let me get
here so I can uncheck Michael is to use
quick edit. And now I can just go down
this way and select those individual
values from the dropdown like this. And if
we said I won't say here, let's get here.
Let's say that this person is part time
and the next four people are part time. I
can grab that handle and Phil down just
like a can with Excel. Let's exit quick
edit and let's see what happens when we
create a new item. We see that when we
come down to the employment status, if we
click there, we have our drop down list
again and we can choose whichever one of
those we want. So now you know how to add
a choice column to a SharePoint list.
Thanks for listening, and I'll see you next time