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Title column renamed for every Lists / Libraries on the tenant
We had someone do that in SharePoint 2010 - they thought they were changing the display name of a list column but instead they had clicked too far up the definition chain and changed the actual site column instead.
I'm not familiar with the Content Hub, but where you're going to want to look is the definition of the title field in the site content type of Item. You need to find the parent of the Item Content type, which is also called 'Item' - it's a Site Content Type. Eventually you'll find your Artefact ID that you'll rename back to Title. It should prompt if you want to change everything. I'm not sure, though, how the hub controls that.
Maybe start with your custom content type definition, then go to its parent.
Thanks for the pointers!
Here is what I notice :
- On Every newly created Site Collection (=linked with O365 group)
- Site Settings > Site Content Types, I have
- Artefact CT Group containing
- Artefact CT with Item as parent
- Artefact CT has Title column renamed Artefact ID
- Title column has Item as source
- Item source has Title renamed to Artefact ID as well
- There is no option to delete the Artefact CT
- Artefact CT with Item as parent
- Artefact CT Group containing
- Site Settings > Site Content Types, I have
- On the ContentTypeHub Site Collection
- Site Settings > Site Content Types, I have:
- No Artefact CT Group nor Artefact CT µ
- Site Settings > Site Content Types, I have:
- BUT if I go to any Site Collection on my tenant and check https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/mysitecollection/_layouts/15/contenttypesyndicationhubs.aspx
- I see:
- Subscribed Content Type:
- Item
- Artefact CT
- Subscribed Content Type:
Which leads me to think that at some point the CTH has been configured to broadcast Artefact CT to all Site Collections but since then that configuration was removed.
And probably the modification was made at the Item level since both Lists & Document Libraries have the issue.
So 2 questions arise:
- How can I revert the situation for existing Site Collections?
- How can I make sure future Site Collections will have the default settings (Item + Title column)
I think the problematic is quite close to the one developed in this post:
https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/8517/site-content-types-screwed-up-how-to-restore-to-default
Thanks for your help,
Site Settings > Site Content Types, I have
- Artefact CT Group containing
- Artefact CT with Item as parent
- Artefact CT has Title column renamed Artefact ID
- Title column has Item as source
- Item source has Title renamed to Artefact ID as well
- Artefact CT with Item as parent
The last one is what I would change. The 'Item' Site Column is in the Item Content Type which is the basis for all lists and document libraries.
To make sure I knew where I was, I'd walk through the structure again. Where you see the title column in your Artefact CT and it has Item as the source, click on 'Item' and it will bring you to the Item Site Content Type (parent is system). That's where Title should be Title. Click on 'title', and you'll see a link to 'edit site column' - click that and change the name back to 'Title'.
And just as a note, by default this site column is supposed to be in group _Hidden so it doesn't show up anywhere.
I'd try it on your smallest, least impactful site collection :)
How to do that over all your site collections, not sure, if the syndication is off.
Hello All,
Thanks for your inputs it helped us identify the issue and along with MS Support Engineers we managed to fix it.
It was actually that a Custom Content Type had been created on the ContentTypeHub site. We just updated the CTH then republished.
For the CT that was not listed in the CTH, we checked the CT ID on one of the subscribing site and used PnP-PowerShell to restore it on the CTH, then republish it, unpublish it and delete it properly.
(It turned out it had been deleted before unpublishing).
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Connect-PnPOnline https://mytenant.sharepoint.com/sites/contenttypehub -UseWebLoginPS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-PnPSite Url CompatibilityLevel --- ------------------ https://mytenant.sharepoint.com/sites/contentTyp... 15 PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Add-PnPContentType -Name "Artefact" -Group "Contoso Content Types" -ContentTypeId "0x010059061F98E8184F40B64EA6C6228BB722" -Description "Creates a list item." Name Id Group Description ---- -- ----- ----------- Artefact 0x010059061F98E8184F40B64EA... Contoso Content Types Creates a list item. PS C:\WINDOWS\system32>
- Artefact CT Group containing
Is someone in your firm doing some work with custom solutions? If not, that is a bug and you should open a ticket with MS.
This type of problem could be caused by a poorly designed and tested Site Design script or PnP provisioning script.
- Not that I know, we use the out of the box and try to avoid customizations.
I thought about creating a Support Request in the first place but since its clearly linked to inproper configuration, I'm not sure they will help..
Let's give it a try though..
