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How do I upload a document to drop off library?
Upload another document to the Drop Off Library with the following settings. Submit the document and your screen should look like this. The move of the document is triggered when a document is uploaded or a document’s metadata is changed.
This solution can be extended in many different ways. For example the drop off library can be email enabled to get documents from email attachments. If documents need to be moved off the file server you can use PageLight for SharePoint to move the document to the Drop Off library and have it do the routing of the document.
How does drop off library work in content organizer?
Drop Off library Documents that don’t match a rule, or that are missing required metadata are sent to the Drop Off library so that users can enter required metadata. Or, you can configure the Content Organizer so that all uploaded documents are temporarily routed to the Drop Off library.
How to add a document to a library?
Click on the Library Setting button. Click on the Add from existing site content types To make finding your content types easier select the group your content types are associated with. Add all of the content types to the content types to add listbox. To make sure that there’s no cheating remove the document content type from the document library.
How to ensure users are prompted for document metadata?
If you want users to be prompted to enter document metadata when the upload a single document: Enable content types in your library from Library Settings.
How to upload a file with metadata using rest?
You can just make the needed metadata part of the URL. Then in whatever you’re registering routes, WebApiConfig.Register (HttpConfiguration config) for me in this case. If your file and its metadata creating one resource, its perfectly fine to upload them both in one request.