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Ignast
Copper Contributor
Sep 04, 2020

Drag and Drop attachments to Outlook from Metadata driven SharePoint library

Hello,

 

I am currently have prepared a library with a few thousand files which is driven completely by metadata and it works AMAZING, however, I get a lot of issues with metadata library if I am trying to send someone a file via email, or upload a file from email.

 

To do these tasks I always have to download the file to my computer and only then I can drag and drop to SharePoint or Outlook. I tried to use link attachment but then it just throws me a list of files with no possibility to filter on metadata. Is there any way to make fully Metadata driven library work at all?

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    Michelle333
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 23, 2020

    Ignast I've got exactly the same question. I'm about to switch my team to using metadata it seems like a waste with the current level of SharePoint & Outlook integration.

     

    I'm also not interested in purchasing a third-party solution.

     

    Can anyone from Microsoft say is this is planned to be fixed. Metadata is such a huge part of document storage on SharePoint. It seems crazy you can't search from outlook using metadata.

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