Oct 09 2019 08:56 PM
Summary
For a month or two my document editors have been opening word documents from a SharePoint library and getting "required properties" error preventing them from saving the file.
After much testing we've found the cause is setting a managed meta data column to have more than 50 term set items as the default column values.
I found this very hard to find any information about so I wanted to post here so that there is something for others to find, and to gauge how much of an issue this is.
Ideally I'd love it if the Word/SharePoint/OneDrive teams updated the message displayed in word to let people know that the issue isn't missing required metadata but the number of metadata items in one property.
If you want my test methodology and results let me know and I'll post it below.
Environment:
The use case
The solution
- For me this is going to be tricky, but I have to find a way of allowing for all usecases around location specific documentation while not giving every document all 62 of our location terms.
- Your suggestions welcome :)
Oct 10 2019 07:43 PM
The original post that go me thinking that this might be the issue was
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/666ed281-e91d-4aea-85ec-1eaf5848e8f8/required-prop...
Thanks David L Jenkins
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/david%20l.%20jenkins/?ws=usercard-mini
Nov 27 2019 01:35 AM
This issue also occurred in our environment. We are unable to save document, in Word app, which has more than 50 terms, error message "required properties" is appeared.
Has someone solved the issue, or know the root cause?
We have also raised MS premium support ticket.
Nov 27 2019 12:12 PM
Hi @cebud
We didn't find any solution for this from MS, or in our extensive searching and discussions with other experts in the field.
So we changed the way we did our meta data, rather than adding all site locations individually to each document, we created an "All sites" metadata item and use that, only changing it where required.
In our case if a document didn't relate to all sites it only related to 1, 2 or up to 5 so the 50 limit wasn't an issue.
Jul 11 2023 12:20 PM