Written by Thomas Höhler     For umbraco versions: Not Version related

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Document Types are the heart of the umbraco content handling. This book shows you what Document Types are and how they interact with Generic Properties and Templates and how they define the content structure of umbraco.

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What are Document Types?

Document Types are the heart of the content structure of umbraco, they define which properties the content elments in detail have, which properties are mandatory, which properties are optional and which data types the properties are of. Also they define which templates can or must be used for the content elments and which document types can occur below each conent element.

The problem for understanding document types and their relationships to templates, content hierarchy and generic properties are complex. So we are going step by step, looking for each relationship in detail and at the end we are putting the pieces together.