SharePoint property panel allow us to change a document set column that get Shared inside the content type, but will not save our changes

Question

I have a document set content type named DS123, and it contains 2 custom columns D1 & D2 as follow:-

then i created a content type named "D" which contain a custom column named "D3":-

and define it inside the document set content type + i define the D1 as a shared column, as follow:-

now i created a document set folder based on the DS123 , then i added a document inside it based on the "D" content type. then i selected the document, where i will get those columns (D1 -the shared column- & D3), as follow:-

but the modification i do inside the D1 columns will not get applied, unlike the modification to the D3 column.. so what is the reason? is this that the D1 is a shared column from the document set? if this is the case, then how we can disable the field inside the property panel?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi @john john Pter,

Thanks for reaching out to us. We are very pleased to assist you.

By design, Shared columns are read-only for the documents within the Document Set, and they can be edited only for the Document Set itself.

Please follow the steps below to hide shared columns in the Properties panel:

1. Select a file > More > Properties.

2.Click on the button in the Properties panel and select Edit Columns.

3. Uncheck the Shared columns. This change affects the Properties panel for all documents which content type is D.

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