{"id":95,"date":"2020-02-17T16:14:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T15:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/metashare-help-admin-manual-how-to-define-mandatory-columns\/"},"modified":"2024-01-12T13:43:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T12:43:44","slug":"how-to-define-mandatory-columns","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/metashare\/get-started\/metadata\/how-to-define-mandatory-columns\/","title":{"rendered":"How to define mandatory columns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here you find instructions on how to change the status of a SharePoint&#8217;s columns (defining whether they should be mandatory, optional or hidden).<\/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>Check the Status of the columns in the content type (whether they are Required\/Optional\/Hidden):<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"637\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-260.png\" alt=\"A content types columns and their statuses\"><\/li><li>Change the status of a column by clicking on the column&#8217;s name and on the new page change the status:<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"471\" height=\"115\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-261.png\" alt=\"Change a columns status\"><br>If you do not want to have the default column &#8220;Title&#8221; being displayed in the form, set it hidden, as this column cannot be&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/adminmanual\/how-to-remove-columns-from-a-site-content-type\/\">removed from a document content type<\/a>.<\/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, click on the &#8220;OK&#8221; button.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here you find instructions on how to change the status of a SharePoint&#8217;s columns (defining whether they should be mandatory, optional or hidden). Open&nbsp;the site content type. Check the Status of the columns in the &#8230; <a title=\"How to define mandatory columns\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/metashare\/get-started\/metadata\/how-to-define-mandatory-columns\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How to define mandatory columns\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":10709,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-95","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\/95","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=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9248,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions\/9248"}],"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=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}