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Sharepoint Document Library- Metadata
Hi, We have a document library in which the requirement is to add 20+ custom columns (Meta data). Adding custom columns (Meta data) to document libary helps to search the documents easily by provi...
You should carefully consider if all meta data is really needed. If so, you should strive to make the end users' life as easy as possible. SharePoint provides only a few ways here that could help you out. Column default values specified at the folder level for example where the library folder you put a document in determines the default values to be used.
A custom add-in could also help in providing a better data entry experience...
A custom add-in could also help in providing a better data entry experience...
Thanks for the reply.
I have created 30+ columns in a content type and used that content type as base for all the document libraries (20+) in my site collection.
Based on the document library type, I have hidden few columns for the users to avoid unnecessary inputs by using IProvisioningExtensibilityHandler in OfficeDevPnP.Core.Framework.Provisioning.Extensibility namespace.
Thank you all for your suggestions.
I am affraid it are to many columns and if there is lots of data this can become a issue in delay and Search my advice would be to look at the columns and bring them down to max 20 but less would even be better
