{"id":7720,"date":"2015-11-08T12:26:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T20:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brainlitter.itgroove.net\/?p=7720"},"modified":"2015-11-08T12:26:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T20:26:22","slug":"office-2016-and-the-mystery-of-the-missing-document-information-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/2015\/11\/08\/office-2016-and-the-mystery-of-the-missing-document-information-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Office 2016 and the mystery of the missing Document Information Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doing a quick scour of the Interwebs, it seems nobody has really posed this question or answered it. A little surprising too\u2026 So let’s do this\u2026<\/p>\n

What
\n<\/span><\/h1>\n

The Document Information Panel (DIP) is missing\/unavailable\/gonzo\/absent\/gone\/AWOL in Office 2016. Yep, it ain’t there. Usually Microsoft “deprecates” this functionality and provides some time to get used to the alternative (and sometimes the alternative is \u2026 well, nothing). And sure enough they have. But they did it one month before Office 2016 was released and without a lot of fanfare. Reference: https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/kb\/3092185<\/a><\/p>\n

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So What
\n<\/span><\/h1>\n

Good lord. What!? Why!?<\/p>\n

I personally haven’t heard an answer but I suspect it is a few things:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. As cool as it was to be able to punch metadata right into the ribbon in Office, it wasn’t consistent in other places that Microsoft places a ribbon (SharePoint, for example) and other Office products didn’t support it either<\/li>\n
  2. The DIP when in partnership with SharePoint could be customized using InfoPath – and well, InfoPath has a murky future (at best)<\/li>\n
  3. Likely the main reason is that the functionality\/usefulness it provides (ability to fill out required fields quickly and before committing a save) is still there but in what I’d argue is a better place. The Office Backstage. You know, that place where all sorts of other properties about the document you are working on can be found (workflow, versioning, checkins, etc.). In fact, I’m going to go as far as to say despite this jarring\/all of a sudden enforced change, I’m already AOK with the new world order<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Now What
    \n<\/span><\/h1>\n

    So what’s the experience? Particularly if you have documents in a SharePoint library (DocLib) that have required metadata? Well, let me show you in pictures\u2026<\/p>\n

    Image 1 –<\/strong> I have a SharePoint Online (Office 365) DocLib with two columns, both requiring properties. I went with a choice column and managed metadata field<\/p>\n

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    Image 2 –<\/strong> When saving the document back to SharePoint, the Ribbon informs me I have some properties to update<\/p>\n

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    Image 3 –<\/strong> Now I’m in the Backstage where I can update my metadata properties (see A and B) but it’s also the natural place to deal with any other document properties, settings, choices, etc. as well such as identifying the version (C) checking it in (D), or managing other aspects of the document (E)<\/p>\n

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