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nmitchell20
Feb 16, 2020Copper Contributor
Issue with Column Default Value Settings
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 ...
- Feb 18, 2020I 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-B31DE2BCD234
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!
nmitchell20
Copper Contributor
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
Feb 18, 2020
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-B31DE2BCD234
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!
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Introduction-to-Document-Sets-3DBCD93E-0BED-46B7-B1BA-B31DE2BCD234
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!
- nmitchell20Feb 18, 2020Copper Contributor
Thanks ChrisChrisWebbTech
- SOC_3Mar 09, 2022Copper Contributor
It used to, i used to do it all the time ChrisWebbTech
Column Default Value Settings based on Location in SharePoint - SharePoint Diary and apparently still does, or at least supposed to.