Content Types are a fundamental building block in SharePoint. Every object you upload or create in a SharePoint list or library gets a Content Type assigned to it, whether you realize it or not. If you create an item in a list, by default, it gets the Item Content Type. If you upload a file…
Another day, another chunk of PowerShell. Sometimes when we iteratively build out our information architecture, we’re over-zealous. It seems like we need a set of Site Columns to maintain metadata on lists or libraries, but in the end, we decide we want to trim away a few of the Site Columns we’ve created. Or, maybe…
Site Designs (See the Site design JSON schema article for all the great things we should be able to do with them) continue to seem like an awesome way to roll out a sound information architecture, yet they are still buggy and lack some basic reliability. I wish Microsoft would pay more attention to this…
We’re in an interesting time in the SharePoint world. Rather than waiting for three year product cycles like we did in the past, we’re along for the ride. To me, it feels like we’re nearing the end of one of the cycles, as modern SharePoint has almost fully taken hold – at least in Office…
We were trying to change an existing Managed Metadata Site Column from allowing single values to allow multiple values. When we did so, we received this error: /Lists/Projects : Cannot change this column to allow multiple values because it is currently being indexed. The error is a little bit misleading, as it might lead you…