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Document Library Properties Dialog Box
ChrisWebbTech - unfortunately, I tried refreshing and opening a new browser instance and the same issue still persist. Thank you though for the response and assistance.
@Veronique Lengelle - Thank you for the response and assistance.R3d3mpt10n
Beau Cameron is a dev guru. He might know this off the top of his head. Is there anyway that for example the spfx command bar extensions can be used on an upload event etc? Didn't know if there was anything out there for this to get around this problem of prompting for metadata when uploading documents.ChrisWebbTech - thank you sir!
@Beau Cameron - would you be able to assist me with this issue? I am fairly new to SP so please bear with me any growing pains if I ask too many questions.
- Yeah, seems they modified the way this works again. It used to pop out when you drag files. Even upload doesn't prompt. Only option you might have is having a link for adding files go to classic view for now, then use modern UI for lookup etc. Not the best solution but I don't think there is a way. There might be a 3rd party solution that can accomplish this on the upload event thou, not 100% on that. I'll see If i can't find something.
There are indeed 3rd party solutions that provide this functionality. See e.g. https://directory.collab365.community/office365-sharepoint/best-document-management-tools-for-sharepoint/
They provide the user with a popup window to select one of the available content types and specify metadata fields. In case the content type contains required fields the user is required to provide values prior to uploading. This way you do not end up with "orphan" documents in your system that are checked out and do not have metadata attached.
Some tools (e.g. SLIM Companion Explorer) also allow mapping properties from the source files (e.g. keywords in PDF files, GPS coordinates in jpg files, ...) to Sharepoint columns.
Paul | SLIM Applications
