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lgonyea
Jun 08, 2021Iron Contributor
Description Column in Libraries
The Description column has recently appeared in all existing and new libraries in our tenant. A Description column is commonly used in Lists, but rarely in Document libraries. We do not see added val...
RobElliott
Jun 08, 2021Silver Contributor
Microsoft release new features on a rolling basis and push them to every tenant, not just yours!
lgonyea
Jun 08, 2021Iron Contributor
Yes I get that and I've been through tickets with Microsoft on this and other issues. But it doesn't make any logical sense in a Library, a List, but not a Library and now we're stuck with extra work to clean up and remove it.
- Jun 08, 2021Yeah, I see the column also...the interesting thing here is that the column is not part of the Document content type at the site level. It seems it has been added to every document library in a SPO tenant
- lgonyeaJun 08, 2021Iron ContributorExactly - it's just so random ... acting like a system column like Created/Modified. Again, lists make sense, but rarely in a library at least in our humble opinions 😉
- Kaboodle_ColinJun 08, 2021Brass Contributor
Yes, we need an explanation for this please. Things get even more confusing when you use Document Sets because you end up with 2 columns called Description, one attached to the Doc Set Content Type and the other free floating. I have just been deleting the free-floating one