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title: Using Document library web parts
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

All Document library functionality is ensured by the following web parts:

- **Document library** - designed for general use anywhere on your website. Displays all documents from a specified location **except** those whose Owner is a community [group](https://docs.kentico.com/k81/community-features/groups.md).\
  **Group document library** - designed for use within the context of a community [group](https://docs.kentico.com/k81/community-features/groups.md). Displays documents whose Owner is the specified community group along with other documents stored under the specified path.

The web parts have the following specific properties:

| Property                     | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| ---------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Library path                 | Path to the parent page under which the library documents are stored, e.g. _**/My-document-library/My-images**_; only **CMS.File** page type documents from the first level under the entered path are displayed.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| Page size                    | Sets the number of documents listed by the web part on a single page.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Document form                | [Alternative form](https://docs.kentico.com/k81/configuring-kentico/creating-alternative-forms.md) used for document property editing (after choosing **Properties** in the library menu). If blank, the CMS.File.DocumentLibrary form is used. If this form is not available, the CMS.File page type's default form is used.                                                                                                                                  |
| Group name                   | Available only for the **Group document library** web part. Documents owned by the specified group stored under the **Library path** are displayed along with other documents under the same path.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| Combine with default culture | if _No,_ the web part only displays documents from the current culture that are stored under the **Library path**. If Yes, documents from the default culture are displayed along with documents from the current culture. In this case, the default culture documents are marked with the culture's flag and the **Translate** option is available in their menu.<br>See also: [Multilingual websites](https://docs.kentico.com/k81/multilingual-websites.md) |
| Check permissions            | If enabled, only documents for which the current user has the **Read** permission are displayed by the web part. If disabled, all documents are displayed.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |