Use a bulleted list, sometimes called an unordered list, for a list in which the list item order isn’t important, such as a list of options.

You can choose whether you want to alphabetize or apply a different order to bulleted list items.

Qualities of bulleted lists

Bulleted lists must have the following qualities:

A complete lead-in sentence punctuated by a colon
More than one list item
Up to two levels
Parallel sentence construction
One sentence or idea for each list item
End punctuation if the list items are complete sentences
No end punctuation if the list items are characters, words, or phrases

For more guidance on using lists, see Best practices for writing with lists.

Example

The following example of a bulleted list contains a complete lead-in sentence. Each item in the list uses parallel construction and doesn’t contain more than one phrase.

You can create the following types of Search Processing Language (SPL) commands:

Eventing commands
Generating commands
Reporting commands
Streaming commands