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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We’ve heard your votes and comments and we’re happy to say we are actively working on supporting this scenario within the OneDrive Sync client. Stay tuned for roll out details!
178 comments
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Nicolas Meistretty
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This is a MAJOR regression of functionality for team sites. I hope that's just a huge mistake and will be fixed asap.
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Kenny
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This issue really throws a spanner in the way we use SharePoint at my office, it needs to be fixed asap otherwise we may need to rethink if SharePoint is the platform we want to use for file collaboration
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Abby Taylor
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I agree that this is a huge hindrance and has rendered a majority of our SPO site useless to many of our users who rely on their synced files for collaboration. We were forced to switch to the new sync client when all was working correctly, only to be faced with a number of road blocks. I fully appreciate the new ability to be able to select which files to sync, however, at the cost of an even more crucial function. Please fix soon!
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PRP
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Causes major issues when working with files. Switched to modern view to fix some issues just for this one to creep up.
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Lance Greenwood
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Show stopper here too, was eagerly awaiting the new client to fix the file number limitations but now this sends us backwards again.
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Lars
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I agree in all critical statments here. It's the same with versioning! In our Organisation we realy need the versioning Feature for all SharePoint-Libaries - so far non-publishes (secondary) can't be synchronized with the NGSC!
So the NGSC is a completely no-go for us at the moment. The previous Groove-Client has no problems to synch non-publishes Versions.
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Darren Wolfe
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If applying metadata to documents is a core function of Sharepoint and indeed critical for structural organisation and search, why on earth is this functionality not in the next gen client?
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RH
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Cannot believe this functionality is not working. We are trying to migrate users to the new OneDrive agent, but this is a complete show stopper
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Mark Moore
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@Rob Farnell - Agreed the problem was in the notes, but a long way down and not aknowledged as a "Bug" - I had the luxury of having direct communication with an MS rep over this while it was in preview and they would NOT aknowledge this as a bug, which it most certainly is when a change in your software affects thousands of yoru existing customers
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Rob Farnell
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This problem has been acknowledged here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Get-started-syncing-SharePoint-sites-with-the-new-OneDrive-sync-client-6de9ede8-5b6e-4503-80b2-6190f3354a88
When syncing libraries that require check out, or libraries with required columns or metadata, the files are synced as read-only. If you do make changes to these files, the changes will not be synced back to Office 365. -
Anonymous
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we have the same problem, cannot edit files sincronized by new onedrive client....we need a urgent answer!
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Rz
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one drive becomes useless with out this ability... checking out and checking back in is out only method of collaboration at this time.
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Anonymous
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Completely agree. The check-in/check-out functionality is essential to our business processes. This is a show-stopper for us.
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Manos Katris
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Serious Issue
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Leonie Bedford
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Agreed this is an issue for our team
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Gavin Busuttil-Reynaud
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I agree that this is so fundamental to a collaboration on 'high stakes' documentation where revision and release status is critical, that I am amazed that the client was ever released without this functionality operational!
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Rickard Andersson
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I second Mark's comment. This needs to be fixed, soonest!
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Anonymous
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This is critical for uptake and was broadly working on some libraries last week but not now. If my teams can't edit from their synchronised folders, they'll stop using the resource altogether and go back to having saved versions in their own folders creating versioning issues.
This needs to be fixed asap!
