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Issue with Column Default Value Settings
We are having an issue with Column Default Values in our Document Library.
The Document Library is in a Modern Team Site within SharePoint Online. Also we are using 2 different content types in our library. One folder and one document content type.
We can set the default values for folders within the library settings, however when we upload a document to the folder it does not apply the values to the columns.
Have tried multiple file types, column types and libraries.
Any help would be extremely grateful 🙂
- I think what you are looking at doing might involved using Document Sets. You can basically set the "Shared Columns" option on a document set, that will share the metadata of the Document Set itself (Folder metadata essentially) that will pass on or be shared to the documents inside the document set.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Introduction-to-Document-Sets-3DBCD93E-0BED-46B7-B1BA-B31DE2BCD234
Tons of video's on Youtube as well. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sharepoint+online+document+sets
Might check that out see if it helps!
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nmitchell20 Did you ever resolve this? We do this every day and update many columns for each document that is added to a folder. I also noticed that your sources for the default value are all over the place and when I look at my settings, they are all sourced to the document library. How did you set up your default values? Did you use a term set or set them up in library settings via the default column value menu?
Rippy79 I ended up using document sets for this as I couldn't get it working with folders.
- Is that column with the default values applied to the Document content type?
ChrisWebbTechHi Chris. I have not turned on the Metadata and Navigation filtering feature in this instance so have not applied column default values at a content type level. I have tried this previously but it still did not work.
Currently the document content type is the default content type for the library.
Should I enable the Metadata and Navigation filtering feature again and troubleshoot again from there?
Thanks
- You shouldn’t need that feature. Can you screenshot your library settings column section? And or above that as well. Is there a content type section In library settings?
Where are you setting folder content type and or the default on the column?
