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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 ...
- 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!
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.