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Forcing the addition of required metadata in file upload to Teams
Hi all, So, when we upload files to SharePoint, we have mandatory metadata fields that we must fill in, for multiple reasons. Right now uploading to Teams just... uploads. Is there a way to for...
- Nope not possible and won’t be either when new files tab comes out. You can have views to encourage required metadata but that’s about it in the modern UI.
You can force a classic view library and use the website tab in teams to point to it which will force metadata but that’s only work around I can think of.
You could also have a flow nag people about missing metadata by sending a daily list of files with missing metadata and linking them to the files missing metadata view filtered to files their created etc. as well.
Nope not possible and won’t be either when new files tab comes out. You can have views to encourage required metadata but that’s about it in the modern UI.
You can force a classic view library and use the website tab in teams to point to it which will force metadata but that’s only work around I can think of.
You could also have a flow nag people about missing metadata by sending a daily list of files with missing metadata and linking them to the files missing metadata view filtered to files their created etc. as well.
You can force a classic view library and use the website tab in teams to point to it which will force metadata but that’s only work around I can think of.
You could also have a flow nag people about missing metadata by sending a daily list of files with missing metadata and linking them to the files missing metadata view filtered to files their created etc. as well.