SharePoint's new Page Templates are awesome and everyone should be taking advantage of their features. I've been using SharePoint pages a lot to build our corporate intranet but the templates take this to a completely new level. Now I can use it for inventory purposes too. Understanding Inventory Types When it comes to inventories, sometimes you want something complex that will let you do all kinds of computations and exports. Computer and phone hardware inventories are like that, and they're best done as SharePoint lists. Sometimes however, your inventory object means more simply by itself. Sometimes you need to be able to write a whole heap of "free text" around it. Good examples of this could include domain name inventories and IT only contacts. These kinds of things work very well in SharePoint as templates. In this post, I want to show you how you can build your own inventory page. Create a Page I'm going to assume that everyone already l...