Add ability to add metadata tags to files
Adds the ability to tag documents with metadata tags and to add another function to search in these metadata tags.
For users it will brings new opportunities how to organize their data. It's a different approach compared to storing files only in a directory structure.
Martin Majoroš
shared this idea
While we don’t have an update here for adding metadata tags to files, we are continuing to explore this as part of the future roadmap. We recently announced the ability to edit existing metadata from within Teams and will continue to invest in metadata scenarios.
94 comments
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Rajat Malik
commented
Tags should sync across mobile and web. Tags should be viewable on the OneDrive mobile app.
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Chris Lieby
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Please don't stop there. Tag support of photos isn't enough. We need to be able to tag documents, particularly now that we can scan documents into OneDrive and recognize the text. Organizing by folders is too limited when a given document could have multiple tags.
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Nick Cloke
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Adding metadata keyword tags to files in OneDrive would be so useful, especially used alongside the existing function to intelligently recognise the content of image files.
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Jochen
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Hey OneDrive Team, Tags would be great, of course it must be possible to filter by that later. As I see it there is kind of "metadata" support already (Description Field), but unfortunatelly this is not included in the search function...
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Linda Busdiecker
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We use metadata and views a ton in SharePoint to help control documents we want to see. I was expecting to get that in OneDrive as well - without that, the web version just feels like a less helpful version of File Explorer. :-(
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Friederike Thies
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Would be awesome to have the option to label some documents as "internal" to avoid any confusion
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Maciej
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I need "description" field editable in OneDrive for Business just like it is working for individual users in order to work with those files with Microsoft Graph.
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Stefanie
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would be great to filter one metadata and create views based on this metadaa. would be useful to be able to select these folderless views to sync offline
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Anonymous
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Great isuue.
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Daniel Dobyns
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This would be a massive improvement in my file organization methods. Using folders alone for organization is archaic and unhelpful; tags would allow files to be sorted into multiple "groups" simultaneously, making OneDrive far more useful to store my files
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Matthew
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How is this not already a feature? This is seriously making me look at moving to other platforms. What is the hold up Microsoft?
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Adam M. Parmenter
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Doesn't matter if it's called labels or tags I just want a way to add key words to a file that will assist in later searches.
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mike
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This should be a standard. I can't believe we have 2019 and Microsoft still isn't capable of managing its own documents, like "any" other standard database has been doing for several decades.
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Anonymous
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Great! We have thousands of paper documents to scan and would love to be able to add tags to the files. Now we have to resort to some type of directory structure.
1) Scan the file
2) Edit, Add Tags
3) What if, when the paper is scanned, you could add tag words at the same time? -
Bruce Hankins
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At least make provision for simply using Tags. It doesn't necessarily need to be metadata columns as in SharePoint. Folders don't work. I can't believe this wasn't developed from the start. There was metadata in the very beginning and it was removed. And like everything else that's been removed, it ends up being brought back and made to be such a big deal when it was something we already had.
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Suzanne Marshall
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This facility exists in SharePoint, I would love it in OneDrive
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Suzanne Marshall
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How many votes does it need to get to get implemented?
This has been open since 2014
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Suzanne Marshall
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This will help me organise my onedrive without having to bury documents in folders
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Daniel Ventura
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This would make my current job of transitioning my company to Onedrive so much easier!
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Anonymous
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Please support the ability to sync user-defined metadata fields like tags, comments etc. with OneDrive!
The File Metadata extension (https://github.com/Dijji/FileMeta) that reuses unfinished Microsoft functionality is great.
But OneDrive still doesn't support syncing the metadata:
https://github.com/Dijji/FileMeta/issues/51
That's a major issue and it would be extremely helpful to fix it!
