---
title: "UserProvidedContentKind"
description: "a kind of user-provided content, a file, a pasted list, a photo, a link: how it is read and what may join a shared entity"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/userprovidedcontentkind
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# UserProvidedContentKind

a kind of user-provided content, a file, a pasted list, a photo, a link: how it is read and what may join a shared entity

[figure: UserProvidedContentKind is a row at platform scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | row |
| scope | platform |
| key | its name |
| store | postgres |
| family | sources |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `name` | `text` | yes |  |
| `how_read` | `text` | yes |  |
| `resolves` | [KindOfEntity](/concepts/kindofentity) | yes |  |
| `may_join_shared` | `bool` | yes |  |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns UserProvidedContentKind directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.