Site Server Content Management Office/OLE Documents 'lose' tags

ID: Q224972

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SYMPTOMS

If an OLE document (for example, Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint) is published to a Content Management site (such as /FPSample) and the document's properties are subsequently changed directly using the Office application, then the Content Management properties, as set through the Content Management Web pages, are lost.


CAUSE

Site Server Content Management stores properties in a separate location within the file than regular Office documents. This information is consequently overwritten when the properties are changed through the Document Properties dialog box from an Office application.


WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, only modify document properties through the Web interface of Content Management or through Site Server WebAdmin.

Administrators can modify properties of documents (individually and through bulk property change) through Site Server's Web Admin. To do so, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to http://<yourserver>/siteserver/Admin/Publishing/.


  2. Click Content Management.


  3. Choose the relevant Membership Server Instance from the dropdown list, and a username and password that have administrative privileges within that Membership server. Click Submit .


  4. Choose the relevant Content Store from the Content Management page and click Properties.


  5. Click Content on the Properties for Content Store page.


  6. Now, from the Content for Content Store page, you can filter to select the relevant documents and change their properties.


For more information on this see the "Publishing\Content Management\Administering Content Management" topic in the Site Server Documentation.

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Version           : winnt:3.0
Platform          : winnt 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: April 2, 1999