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Best Practice Question: Create a list where items may not have a Title?
I've been tasked with creating a system for tracking IT assets (computers, peripherals, etc) for a department. Some are assigned to individuals and others are assigned to a group, so I'm building two...
I've just setup the content type and just "Hidden" the title field. It's not required to have it. In the old SharePoint you would have to do some js script to make the other columns use the drop down menu etc. but with the new modern layout with the way items are now selectable might not be as much of an issue.
Once that's hidden it won't show on forms for entry, and you just hide it from views.
Once that's hidden it won't show on forms for entry, and you just hide it from views.
I'm generally not a fan of hiding columns, but that's not the worst idea. It should do the job, and it's likely we'll build a PowerApp to interact with the data, so we'll have to remember that it's hidden and use other columns for the purpose of sorting and filtering the items.
OK, one of the reasons I'm not a fan of hiding columns: Even when Title is not required, QuickEdit mode needs it. I did exactly as you described and tried using a QuickEdit view to paste in the data from the Excel sheet that's been used up to this point. It kept complaining that it couldn't save new items because a required field was missing. Added the Title field and - BOOM - was able to paste in and save.
- Hmmm, I rarely use if ever quick edit when I had to customize the form like that, that's odd. You would think it would be ok to not have.
