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DBrown2301
Nov 25, 2022Copper Contributor
Classic View
Hi I've created a Document Register on a site and I'd like it to be in classic view permanently. Reason for this is that when uploading a document, the document controller can select the business en...
SvenSieverding
Nov 26, 2022Bronze Contributor
DBrown2301
This is not answering your original question, but if you want your users to upload single documents through a dialog that requires them to input required metadata, then you can still do the following in the modern ui:
1) Get the Guid for your document library (for example from the "List=" url part of the "More library settings" link)
2) Construct the following link using that guid
https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com/sites/yoursite/_layouts/15/upload.aspx?list={xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}3) Route your users to use that link to upload new documents
On the first screen, your users will get the classical single file upload dialog and on the second screen they are required to enter all necessary metadata using the modern form