Issue with Column Default Value Settings

[nmitchell20]

We are having an issue with Column Default Values in our Document Library.

The Document Library is in a Modern Team Site within SharePoint Online. Also we are using 2 different content types in our library. One folder and one document content type.

We can set the default values for folders within the library settings, however when we upload a document to the folder it does not apply the values to the columns.

Have tried multiple file types, column types and libraries.

Any help would be extremely grateful :)

[#2]

Is that column with the default values applied to the Document content type?

[#3]

@Chris WebbHi Chris. I have not turned on the Metadata and Navigation filtering feature in this instance so have not applied column default values at a content type level. I have tried this previously but it still did not work. 

Currently the document content type is the default content type for the library.

Should I enable the Metadata and Navigation filtering feature again and troubleshoot again from there?

Thanks

[#4]

You shouldn’t need that feature. Can you screenshot your library settings column section? And or above that as well. Is there a content type section In library settings?

Where are you setting folder content type and or the default on the column?

[#5]

@Chris Webb 

Please find below a screenshot of my library settings which shows the 2 content types and also the columns.

The following screenshot shows me assigning the default values in the library settings.

However whenever i drop a document into the folder within the library, the columns are not populated

I really appreciate your help with this.

[#6]

Which. Column in the list has default value set and expected to populate?

[#7]

@Chris WebbAll of the ones highlighted yellow. The values are set to be different values at a folder level. each folders values will be specific and entered individually

[#8]

Yeah content types don’t work Quite like that. What you are looking for is either a power automate flow to handle that tagging or I believe there is a content processor or something like that that can have rules setup for metadata. I’m out bowling right now so if I get a min when I get home to look that up I will!

[#9]

Ok thanks Chris. I appreciate your time.

If not no worries though, I can find another way to achieve the same result I'm sure

@Chris Webb 

[#10 · Accepted solution]

I think what you are looking at doing might involved using Document Sets. You can basically set the "Shared Columns" option on a document set, that will share the metadata of the Document Set itself (Folder metadata essentially) that will pass on or be shared to the documents inside the document set.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Introduction-to-Document-Sets-3DBCD93E-0BED-46B7-B1BA-B31DE...

Tons of video's on Youtube as well. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sharepoint+online+document+sets

Might check that out see if it helps!

[#11]

Thanks Chris@Chris Webb 

[#12]

@nmitchell20 Did you ever resolve this?  We do this every day and update many columns for each document that is added to a folder. I also noticed that your sources for the default value are all over the place and when I look at my settings, they are all sourced to the document library. How did you set up your default values?  Did you use a term set or set them up in library settings via the default column value menu? 

[#13]

@Rippy79 I ended up using document sets for this as I couldn't get it working with folders. 

[#14]

It used to, i used to do it all the time @Chris Webb 

Column Default Value Settings based on Location in SharePoint - SharePoint Diary and apparently still does, or at least supposed to.