{"id":113,"date":"2020-02-17T16:17:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T15:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/metashare-help-admin-manual-how-to-set-the-column-order\/"},"modified":"2024-01-12T13:43:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T12:43:53","slug":"how-to-set-the-column-order","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/metashare\/get-started\/metadata\/how-to-set-the-column-order\/","title":{"rendered":"How to set the column order"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you want to change the order that site columns are displayed in the property form, you need to set their content type&#8217;s column order in SharePoint. This is how you do it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/adminmanual\/how-to-open-a-site-content-type\/\">Open&nbsp;the site content type<\/a>.<\/li><li>Click on the &#8220;Column order&#8221; link, at the bottom of the content type\u2019s page:<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"502\" height=\"374\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-263.png\" alt=\"The link to change a content type's column order\"><\/li><li>Per column, select a number in the drop-downs under the &#8220;Position from top&#8221; header, corresponding to the order they should be displayed:<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"555\" height=\"197\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-264.png\" alt=\"Changing the content type's column order\"><\/li><li>To propagated the changes that you have done to all locations, leave the setting &#8220;Update all content types inheriting from this type?&#8221; to &#8220;Yes&#8221; (the default setting):<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"516\" height=\"115\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-262.png\" alt=\"Update all content types inheriting from this type?\"><\/li><li>When you are done,&nbsp;click on the &#8220;OK&#8221; button.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to change the order that site columns are displayed in the property form, you need to set their content type&#8217;s column order in SharePoint. This is how you do it: Open&nbsp;the site &#8230; <a title=\"How to set the column order\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/metashare\/get-started\/metadata\/how-to-set-the-column-order\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How to set the column order\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":10709,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-113","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"no-featured-image-padding"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9249,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113\/revisions\/9249"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}