Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Title Field not being copied over to Records Center

For some reason when sending a document to a Records Center the "Title" field does not populate. Googling this gives little joy, though a couple of results announce that this is a bug in SharePoint. To get around this problem do the following:

Modify view in the destination Document Library, add the "Title" field [optional]
In the Document Library settings, columns section change the "Title" field's name to something else, eg: "Title_OLD"
In the Document Library settings, add a new column called "Title" and set its "required" setting to "Yes"

This hasn't been extensively tested, so be careful to monitor the results.