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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...
Think of it this way, SharePoint knows a lot about Office document properties (because SP used to be part of the Office product line) and somethings about other vendors documents, if you want SharePoint to know more about those properties, you can created custom content types and/or managed search properties.
Windows File Explorer does not know a lot about properties configured in SharePoint because every company can customize SharePoint as they see fit. Why the Windows team has not integrated with the default SP Properties is a mystery to me.
I have almost the same question, however I did not find the answer here.
My collegues would like to start using metadata but also want to synchronize the document library they work with on a regular basis with their PC (in case Internet does not work when they want to access a document).
Unfortunately, none of the metadata colums we add seem to be available in the explorer, which makes it kind of difficult to find documents in long lists.
What am I missing?
I add a printscreen (example) of what we see in both situations.
There is nothing you are missing.
In short:
- SharePoint additional columns are mapped to document properties for Office files and hence are visible locally in the backstage of the Office application when the synced file is opened.
- SharePoint additional columns are, in general, NOT mapped to document properties for non-Office files (e.g. PDFs). In the article that I referenced in a previous post in this thread are listed the file types for which additional properties could be actually mapped. Again, not PDFs.
- In any case, additional properties are not visible as columns in File Explorer.
Hope it helps...
Thanks, not the answer I was looking for but still, your answer is OK. I thought I as much.
I just wonder how I will convince my colleagues, who are huge fans of maps on a fileshare to organize their documents, to use document libraries instead of folders with this. But I will give it a try.
- Thanks!
