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john john
Sep 21, 2023Steel Contributor
Define a custom content type for a Folder inside a document librry will be ignored
I have created a custom content type name Foldercustom which have its parent = Folder and contain a custom column named "Dept", as follow:- now inside the document library i define...
DaveMehr365
Sep 21, 2023MVP
Hello john john
i think it's not possible out of the box. We use for this scenario document sets, it's also a folder and you can customizing this kind of content type.
You can find more about document sets here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/office/introduction-to-document-sets-3dbcd93e-0bed-46b7-b1ba-b31de2bcd234?WT.mc_id=DX-MVP-5004845
Best, Dave
john john
Sep 21, 2023Steel Contributor
DaveMehr365but when we add a new document from our PC >> the document will have the custom content type related to documents (which have Documents as its parent) named CT... so why it is working for documents while failed on the folders?