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paul mitchell
Brass Contributor
Jan 10, 2017

Read Only (Padlock Icon) files - OFDB 17.3.6743.1212

I am currently using the ODFB preview client 17.3.6743.1212 to sync a single group and a single SharePoint online document library.  The Office 365 group library is working as expected but all the do...
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Ben Liesfeld
Copper Contributor
Apr 19, 2017

Same behaviour here. Why don't they just admit that ODFB does not work in conjunction with SharePoint? It never has in my experience. Why are they rolling this out when they know about such a bug?

  • Olivier Jegaden's avatar
    Olivier Jegaden
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 28, 2017

    Synchronization appears to work if you place your required columns within a Content Type and apply said Content Type to the library. If you add a column to a library and make it required, it locks files again in the local synced folder (Windows 10, new ODFB client)

    • Mark Moore's avatar
      Mark Moore
      Iron Contributor
      Apr 28, 2017
      Olivier Jegaden wrote:

      Synchronization appears to work if you place your required columns within a Content Type and apply said Content Type to the library. If you add a column to a library and make it required, it locks files again in the local synced folder (Windows 10, new ODFB client)

      This is not true in my case - I use content types exclusively, some of the columns in the content type were mandatory, so them being in a content type did NOT allow the data to be editable

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