Users will initially go through the process of bulk uploading documents into their shiny new SharePoint site, either through the ‘Upload Multiple Documents’ menu item or through Explorer View. Often they’ll run into the problem where once uploaded the document remains checked out and no one else can see it, and then have to go through the tedious process of individually checking them in one by one (as well as filling in the metadata!)
During this initial upload I’ll usually turn off all settings which will do this automatic check out, and only turn them on once that process has completed. This is a list of settings that you need to configure for this:
- Select No for the ‘Require documents to be checked out before they can be edited?’ setting in Version Settings
- Make sure all columns that have Yes to ‘Require that this column contains information’ have a default value, else select No for the column in question.
Advertisement
