nDocument Information Panel – This is the windownwhich shows all the properties associated with the document. Let it be out ofnthe box / default properties (like Title, Keywords), or custom properties orncontent type properties.
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nWait, what are content typenproperties?
nConsider a scenario where you have a SharePointnsite and a document library. You create some site columns and then createncontent type for your document library. (Inheriting from the document contentntype). Now you associate this newly created content type to your documentnlibrary and done.
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nYou go ahead and click on create New Document linknand Word Editor opens up. Now there you see the Document Information Panel (DIP)ncontaining all the site columns in your content type. These are metadatanholders for your document. And that’s why these document properties are callednas content type properties.
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nIn Following Image, I have opened the documentnfrom the SharePoint document library and added Version and Comments column innthe default document content type , which are visible in DIP.
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nIssue:
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nThere were some of the content type propertiesnwhich were getting displayed in DIP, but I didn’t want users to see those /changenthose. In short I needed to hide those.
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nLet’s try to hidenversion property from DIP.
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nSolution:
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nFirst thought comes to mind like – ok thesenproperties are nothing but the site columns right? So why don’t we just deletenthe site columns and get rid of properties in DIP? But NO. Because if we deletenthe site columns from the content type , the DIP won’t show the property butndocument will not be holding the metadata for that column.
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nSo what could be done?
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nTrick I found is, just hide the site column.
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nHow we can do it?
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nLibrary settings > Find your content type and clicknon it > select the site column which you don’t want to see in DIP > clicknon Hidden option in advanced option and select ok.
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nNow DIP will not show the content type propertynwhen creating new documents from the library
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nVersion column gets hidden from DIP
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nNote: This approach isnused only when the site column is not of type mandatory/required. As per my knowledgenyou cannot hide the column which is required.
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