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Column default values for Person/group
I have a document library with multiple folders. Each folder is a department, and inside the folders are the controlled documents for that department.
I need a way to automatically tag any new documents in these folders with a default approver... but (of course) Microsoft only has SOME of the column types set up for having default values.
Anyone have a workaround for this? My plan was to create a workflow that picked up the approver via an "Approver" column... but if it can't be filled in automatically, I've hit ANOTHER dead end.
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- Just putting this here in case someone else is running into the same roadblock:
Instead of folders, I switched to document sets... you still can't technically have a default setting for the column... but you CAN set it up as a shared column and have that column synchronized. I set the document set up with the Approver, and now all the documents within it are set to the same person. Close enough.
