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Copper Contributor

Jan 25, 2018

What SharePoint library columns might be recognized as columns (details/fields) in File Explorer?

Bear in mind, I'm no expert... What SharePoint library columns might be recognized as columns (details/fields) in File Explorer for Windows 10? I've found that if I set up a Single Line of Text co...

Copper Contributor

Jan 25, 2018

Thanks Stephen. I've explored a little more. It is only Office Documents and not pdfs, so it isn't as useful as I thought. If I change the Subject in Properties in the Office document, it shows up in SharePoint and File Explorer and vice versa but I couldn't get that behavior if I tried the same trick with fields such as Status, Categories, Hyperlink Base, or Company; just Subject.

Salvatore Biscari

Silver Contributor

Jan 26, 2018

Hi Don Doering

The behavior you are seeing is related to Document Property Promotion and Demotion.

We have already discussed it in other threads.

For more details, see https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/wbaer/2014/08/29/document-property-promotion-and-demotion-overview-and-considerations/

Don Doering
Copper Contributor
Jan 26, 2018
Thanks, Salvatore. I kind of understand. As I wrote, I'm no expert. My simple question was are there some other fields like Subject that are likely to work this way?
- Salvatore Biscari
  Silver Contributor
  Jan 26, 2018
  For Office documents, I think that most of the document properties work in that way, while for PDFs only some.
  
  Give a look also at this thread: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint/Is-there-any-way-at-all-to-search-for-PDF-files-using-PDF/m-p/116601#M10490
  
  Does it help?