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
shared this idea
This is something we’re looking at, no dates to share yet.
142 comments
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Vicki Little
commented
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. -
Koen Vereecken
commented
My first day of testing with required metadata and I'm bumping into this horrible shortcoming... yes very much needed
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Vicki Little
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Good question Dion but no answer
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Dion
commented
Are you guys still thinking about it? 2 years later?
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Dion
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What is the rationale behind required metadata and syncing files in read-only mode?
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Roland Kreuzinger
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Please also include editing of metatags using Windows Explorer
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Anonymous
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This syncing issue is a horrible user experience and may be the reason why my company chooses not to move forward with its O365 license.
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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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Josiah Thomas
commented
Yup. This is important...
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Simon
commented
An essential feature and being able to sync with mandatory columns can't come soon enough
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Doug Peterman
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Think about this from the perspective of Enterprise Records Management requirements. Many organizations manage content using managed metadata for multiple purposes including views, records retention, etc. Setting columns to be required helps to enforce this metadata. Not allowing users to edit files with required metadata using OD4B sync severely impacts adoption of SharePoint Online by essentially taking away the familiar file explorer user experience. The lack of this feature negatively affects many large organizations. This issue directly conflicts with the recommendation at https://support.office.com/en-us/article/troubleshoot-mapped-network-drives-that-connect-to-sharepoint-online-ef399c67-4578-4c3a-adbe-0b489084eabe?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US. This has now been a problem for over 2 years, please take this seriously.
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FABIAN MEDINA
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We are having this issue in our organization. We are adapting OneDrive but would also like to leverage metadata so that a user has the option to sync and be able to filter on the columns. This helps the user NOT use folder so that data becomes visible and not seem "hidden"
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Patrick Eddy
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This is a huge issue. If OneDrive is how we have to sync Sharepoint, it needs to support the most basic of Sharepoint's features. Checkout functionality is core to using Sharepoint and controlling documents on Sharepoint.
Now all I can tell users is, you have to go through a clunky Sharepoint interface which is incapable of loading the view for all the folders at once, open online, then select open in Excel or Word. This adds minutes of time to open every file for every user for no conceivable reason.
I have upvoted the same absolutely basic suggestion dozens of times on every incarnation of this feedback system for almost two years. Why is this getting ignored? This is an absolute basic requirement for OneDrive's compatibility with Sharepoint.
