Enable sync client to allow editable synching of team sites with mandatory metadata columns
As at 23rd Jan 2017 the newly relased One Drive for Business synch client enables synching of Team sites BUT if any libraries have mandatory meta data or require check out, the synched folder/library is read only. This cripples collaboration by teams on documents. This needs to be fixed
Mark Moore
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This is something we’re looking at, no dates to share yet.
154 comments
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Nick Winchester
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2 years on and this still isn't solved? Really?
Why would you cripple the 2 biggest features of SharePoint document libraries to not work together? -
Vicki Little
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This has been going on far too long and now there are issues syncing with the old groove.exe One Drive for Business, I'm sure orchestrated by Microsoft. If One Drive for Business could do it, I'm sure that Microsoft can figure a way to make it work with the new one Drive Client since that is what they want us to use. This is ridiculous!!!!
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David S.
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I quite agree
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Erik Wright
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@Can Comertoglu, any updates on this?
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Ann Pennington
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In order for end users to adopt & support O365 and SPO/OneDrive in particular, they need to trust that they can upload files to the SPO from their file manager (Windows Explorer/Mac OS Finder). Box supports this, DropBox supports this - why does Microsoft have this fatal flaw? SPO has a view "Items that Needs Attention" that helps assist users in completing required data elements. Hope this is fixed & soon.
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Marc F.
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Having a SP library with required metadata AND the ability to sync with OD is so fundamental to enabling collaboration WITH robust content management practices it's hard for me to understand how MS missed this. A BIG upvote for this feature.
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Steve
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Needs an urgent fix. Have coworkers syncing doc libraries via OneDrive and checking out a document makes it read only.
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Wes Fortin
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This is critical for us as well. Even Open in App is broken, you can't use the Check In\Check Out features in MS Word. It's clear Microsoft intended there to be unified document version control in the Office 365 Suite - the functionality is partially there. But for whatever reason, some of the business units appear to have missed the memo.
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Anonymous
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FIX THIS NOW PLEASE!
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Norbert Porsche-Ully
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This is an absolute must and it is also inconsistent behavior on various sites.
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Dmitrijs
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Agree with Philine: "Required check-out is a hugely useful feature, this has to be working within the sync app too." 100% true and right. If there is document management functionality - then it should WORK (inside Office365 at least - it is your product and it has no required integration between interconnected apps)! We pay money for our licenses that are not crippled, or disfunctional for a product that does not perform as intended...
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Anonymous
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We need this feature!!!!!!
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Vicki Little
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We've been talking about this for 2 years now. FIX IT! How much dissatisfaction do you need. We are only asking that you put it back the way it was. How hard is it to make the new One Drive client do something the old one did. This is ridiculous and needs to be handled by your uncustomer friendly company.
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Anton Gubarkov
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Please get things back to how they were. I still remember this functionality working: both checkout and required metadata columns.
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Anonymous
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please fix this
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Vicki Little
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Why is this so difficult to put it back the way it was???????
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Philine
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Any updates on this? Required check-out is a hugely useful feature, this has to be working within the sync app too.
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Simon
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Just discovered today that a user can't sync a OneNote notebook stored in a document library which has check out enabled to the OneNote desktop application, probably due to this issue.
As per the previous comments, please can this feature be added to the roadmap and implemeneted asap, our users currently have to resort to using mapped drives to SPO document libraries in File Explorer which is far from ideal and has its own set of problems!
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nicolle.brice2@bhp.com
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We have a premiere support ticket. Ticket #:13695302
A few weeks ago, several document libraries started syncing in Read Only mode. The cause – several columns suddenly became mandatory behind the scenes.
The site content types show the columns as optional, but mandatory columns from the base content type have re-appeared behind the scenes – hidden from view.
Fix
1.Go to “Library Settings” > “Advanced Settings”
2.In the first option, choose “No” on “Allow management of content type”
3.Then the column will display the “Required” tab in the library settings as my following first screenshot
4.Click the columns which are required, and change to option “Require that this column contains information” to No5.After changing the columns back to optional, the folder in OneDrive should become available immediately
6.Then go back to “Advanced Settings”, and enable content types again
7.Finally, check that the files are again editable in OneDrive.
this is a bug. We have asked Microsoft to investigate what changed. We have this problem for thousands of libraries and the workaround is unacceptable.
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nicolle.brice2@bhp.com
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About a month or maybe two months ago, several document libraries started syncing Read Only. The cause – several columns suddenly became mandatory behind the scenes. We had a premiere support ticket #:13695302, but the only solution provided was a manual workaround and no admission that something had changed.
The site content types show the columns as optional, but mandatory columns from the base content type have re-appeared behind the scenes – hidden from view.Fix
1. Go to “Library Settings” > “Advanced Settings”
2. In the first option, choose “No” on “Allow management of content type”
3. Then the column will display the “Required” tab in the library settings as my following first screenshot
4. Click the columns which are required, and change to option “Require that this column contains information” to No
5. After changing the columns back to optional, the folder in OneDrive should become available immediately
6. Then we could go back to “Advanced Settings”, then enable content type again
7. Finally, check that the files are again editable in OneDrive.
this is a bug. We have this problem for thousands of libraries and the workaround is unacceptable.
