{"id":20241,"date":"2014-01-29T09:57:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T15:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solutionanalysts.com\/blog\/learn-how-to-create-and-add-a-column-meta-data-to-sharepoint-folders\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T22:37:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T04:07:43","slug":"learn-how-create-and-add-column-meta-data-sharepoint-folders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solutionanalysts.com\/blog\/learn-how-create-and-add-column-meta-data-sharepoint-folders\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn How to create and add a column (meta data) to SharePoint Folders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">One can not modify the Content Type named Folder in SharePoint, as it is &#8220;sealed&#8221; always.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">So we created a new content type based on folder, added the custom column, added the content type to the library and magically we found my custom folder type in the New dropdown. Here&#8217;s the steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go to Site Actions, Site Settings<\/li>\n<li>Click Site Content Types<\/li>\n<li>Click Create<\/li>\n<li>Give the new content type a name such as &#8220;Sample Folder<\/li>\n<li>Set the parent content type group as Folder Content Types<\/li>\n<li>Set the parent content type to Folder<\/li>\n<li>Add the new content type to a Group. I put it back in the &#8220;Folder Content Types&#8221; group<\/li>\n<li>Click OK<\/li>\n<li>Scroll down to the columns section and click Add from new site column<\/li>\n<li>Name the column and set all the usual column options<\/li>\n<li>Repeat for any additional columns (Document Type,Entity,Date, etc)<\/li>\n<li>Click OK<\/li>\n<li>Go to your document library<\/li>\n<li>Click Settings and Library Settings, or in 2010 click the Library ribbon tab and then click Library Settings<\/li>\n<li>Click Advanced and set Allow management of content types to Yes and click OK (this may already selected)<\/li>\n<li>Scroll down to Content Types and click Add from existing site content types and add your new folder content type<\/li>\n<li>Go to your document library and click the New dropdown, or the New button in the 2010 Document ribbon, and add your folder!<\/li>\n<li>Go to the View drop down and click Modify this view and add your new folder meta daolumns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"\">There are no easy pre-cooked solutions in SharePoint, but the first step to make the right choices is to understand how it all actu works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One can not modify the Content Type named Folder in SharePoint, as it is &#8220;sealed&#8221; always<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hire-developer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solutionanalysts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solutionanalysts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solutionanalysts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solutionanalysts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solutionanalysts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.solutionanalysts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32672,"href":"https:\/\/www.solutionanalysts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20241\/revisions\/32672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solutionanalysts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solutionanalysts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solutionanalysts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solutionanalysts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}