7 things to know about the Description field in SharePoint pages and news
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Nov 8, 2022 11:44 AM

7 things to know about the Description field in SharePoint pages and news

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My former colleague recently asked me how to add metadata or tags to SharePoint news or pages

My first thought was to add metadata to the pages in the Pages Library, but I quickly dismissed that thought as it would mean that every publisher would have to go into the library after publication to add their metadata….

In this post:

  1. The Description field is almost on top of the popup
  2. The Description field is auto-populated after publishing
  3. You can change or remove the text after publishing
  4. The text in Description is shown in the News web part
  5. The text in Description is shown in Search results
  6. The text in Description is searchable
  7. Wait for it!

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