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  1. Your closing comment is almost perfect (besides the typo). I would add “No one understands content better than the people who create it at the time they are writing it
    A properties panel visible while authoring makes it natural to see content and properties inclusively.

      1. Agreed. But we have Office 2016 clients installed via O365 subscriptions and also SP2013. We are yet to migrate to SPO and each time a document is opened, the property pane shows up and throws an error which is frustrating the users. There seems to be no way of disabling this add-in.

    1. Hi, just letting you know that I placed a query on Microsoft Forum regarding this issue, https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/6aeec4be-2310-4859-85b8-ec55e16eb82f/word-sharepoint-properties-panel-issue-addin-error?forum=sharepointgeneral, and that Microsoft appears to be working on this issue still, although I have no idea if they intend to make this feature available for on-premise deployment.

      We are working on trying to disable the error that users see when they open word documents, and I will post if we come up with a solution.

      Also, Marc, I am the other person at sptechcon 2017 who had the same issue.

  2. I love the SharePoint Properties Panel. One thing that seems very strange, when opening a document (using content types) from a SharePoint document library (using content types), it opens on the right side of the document. Yet when I open another document in a subsite, using the same content type, it opens the sharepoint panel in File, instead on the right side of the document. Any suggestions?

    1. @D:

      I can’t profess to know the answer to that. However, all functionality these days starts in the cloud and then comes to on premises if it makes sense. This feels like something that does make sense. Maybe SharePoint 2019? Again, no definite knowledge here.

      M.

  3. I have built an adaptation of the properties panel to with SP2010. I have hit a big snag though that I realize is part of the Office365/SharePoint 2016-Online design. Opening a new document from a template in a library, or opening a new document for a content type in the New dropdown does not enable the Properties Panel. Using the button in the ribbon only switches to the backstage tab. It seems that the properties panel will only work with an existing document. Our use case for the “venerable DIP” is to use content controls for library columns in templates (.dotx) so the content can be entered in the DIP with the context of the document visible – this is particularly useful for authoring new documents from the template. Unfortunately the backstage properties view is a bad substitute for the DIP. The new properties panel is promising, but I’d like to figure out how to get it to appear with a new document.

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