About property sets and properties

Properties are the basic building blocks that make up much of a vault’s configuration. Properties are created within property sets. A property set contains properties that are used by the same parent object or custom extension, or for the same purpose. Some properties are built into the system. Custom properties can be added to a vault’s configuration for your own purposes. Custom properties can be used for document types, folder types, and many other objects. Custom properties assigned to a folder type can be inherited by the documents that the folder contains. Custom property pages are also built upon custom properties. Before you can configure property pages, document types, folder types, external data links, the Field-Path definition, navigation views, reports, or application links, you must first create the custom properties that they use.