Using Microsoft Lists to store and view data
Our next tool to help us make a savory and desirable solution is Lists. SharePoint lists have long provided a mechanism for data storage. They’re reminiscent of Excel spreadsheets in the cloud, with rows and columns of data. We know that lists and libraries are functionally similar behind the scenes. Libraries start with a document and can have additional metadata columns to further describe it. Lists are a collection of metadata columns that may also have optional documents as attachments.
List views have allowed us to sort, filter, and group data by this metadata, providing several ways to best consume the information. Prior versions of SharePoint have included special kinds of lists such as calendars, contacts, tasks, and more. That provided us with a starting point for applicable metadata by provisioning specific fields for us. Lists such as calendars also come with their own special views of visual data in specific ways....
