How to add description or tag for a Sharepoint folder?

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How to add description or tag for a Sharepoint folder?

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How to add description or tag for a Sharepoint folder? The column can be created by cannot be edited to add information, how to do it?

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Anonymous

Hi Will,

Thanks for posting this inquiry on our community. I am very glad to help you on it.

I tested on my side, I enabled default "description" column in document library. And it is read-only by default. However folders properties can be edited it in grid view if you enable"Require that this column contains information" settings as below:

If you have any further related question, please feel free to let me know.

Best Regards,

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I just tried this on 11/9/2023 and nothing happens when I click "Edit" on the "Description" column. No window opens for me to check the box to allow data to be entered.

EDIT* It worked when I opened the Teams Page in Sharepoint in my web browser. Then I was able to click "Edit" and the window opened up to allow me to make the change above. However, I still cannot figure out how to type into each individual folder row description.

EDIT #2 I was able to get it to work by using "edit grid view" then it allowed me to type into the description column I created for each folder. Could be way easier, by clicking properties or details.

Answer 2

Anonymous

Thank you Sophia, it solved my question.

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