Custom Document Properties

[Marcel Mason]

I have found via the news groups that modifications to titles and such on the
"Summary" tab of the document properties box is non do-able. What I am
wondering though is if it is possible to have an item [or items] in the list
on the "Custom" tab trigger a drop down menu for the "Value" field.

By way of explanation we are hoping to encourage more use of the document
properties by our users as we move information into a Sharepoint Portal
system. Ideally we would to make this as painless, and efficient, as possible
for the end user by having them choose, for example, a property from the list
and have their options displayed in a drop down list to select the "value".

We would also like to remove items from the custom list that are not relevant.

Are this things reasonably do-able?

Thanks

Marcel

 

[VBA Dabbler]

Yes, but I'm not aware you can interface with the document properties dialog
using VB. However, you can download from Microsoft.com the free DS OLE File
Property Reader 2.0 for use in reading MS Office document properties,
creating and deleting custom properties, and changing their values. This
application allows you to do all of this at the file level (without having to
open each file), and is callable from VBA.

Hope this helps,
VBA Dabbler