{"id":2053,"date":"2020-03-19T14:56:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T13:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/app\/help\/adminmanual\/metashare-help-admin-manual-how-to-define-mandatory-columns-copy\/"},"modified":"2024-01-12T13:43:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T12:43:39","slug":"how-to-remove-columns-from-a-site-content-type","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/metashare\/get-started\/metadata\/how-to-remove-columns-from-a-site-content-type\/","title":{"rendered":"How to remove columns from a site content type"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here you find instructions on how to remove columns from a site content type in SharePoint.<\/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 name of the column that you want to remove from the content type, in the list of available columns:<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3537\" src=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-265.png\" alt=\"The list of columns in a content type\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-265.png 630w, https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-265-300x107.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/li><li>On the content type&#8217;s column properties, click on the &#8220;Remove&#8221; button:<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"706\" height=\"467\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3535\" src=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-266.png\" alt=\"Remove a column from a content type\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-266.png 706w, https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-266-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Note<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The default column &#8220;Title&#8221; cannot be removed from document content types, so if you do not want to have the column displayed in the form, you need to set its status to &#8220;Hidden&#8221;.<\/li><li>Removed columns from a content type are just removed from the content type, not deleted from the site, to totally remove a column you need to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/adminmanual\/how-to-delete-a-site-column\/\">delete it<\/a>.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here you find instructions on how to remove columns from a site content type in SharePoint. Open&nbsp;the site content type. Click on the name of the column that you want to remove from the content &#8230; <a title=\"How to remove columns from a site content type\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/metashare\/get-started\/metadata\/how-to-remove-columns-from-a-site-content-type\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How to remove columns from a site content type\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":10709,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-2053","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\/2053","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=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9476,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2053\/revisions\/9476"}],"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=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}