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Joshua Gordon
Copper Contributor
Sep 22, 2018

SharePoint Online - Can metadata be applied recursively when uploading a folder?

Hi All,   My organization is going to be rolling out SharePoint online in the coming months and looking over the new document libraries, it looks like there are some really nice features. One thing...
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Sderix
Brass Contributor
Sep 24, 2018

The answer Juan gave is correct.

As I understand things you are in the process of roling out SharePoint within your organization.

At current you are hosting projects on fileservers and while you are provisioning (creating (project)sites) SharePoint the need arises to migrate the files/folders from a specific project to a specific SharePoint (project) site (collection).

 

What you need to take into account is that - in SPO - you can only drag folders with files into a modern document library, not a classic document library.

 

What you could do, as a workaround, is setup migration tooling (like ShareGate - and no I am in no affiliated to them other then I really like the product). 

You then have several options:

1-'manually' configure ShareGate to migrate a part of the file share to a specific site including metadata

2-use scripting to setup a (semi) automated process.

 

HTH!

 

 

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