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Issue with Column Default Value Settings
- 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!
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?Please find below a screenshot of my library settings which shows the 2 content types and also the columns.
The following screenshot shows me assigning the default values in the library settings.
However whenever i drop a document into the folder within the library, the columns are not populated
I really appreciate your help with this.
- Which. Column in the list has default value set and expected to populate?