#sharepoint metadata

Clearly, I'm having a rant this morning. Again Folders v Metadata. Moving a whole load of files/folders to the cloud?

We set up libraries.

We add metadata columns to the libraries including lookup lists on vital business information like Customers, Categories etc. At these columns lookups, this ensures that everything is uniformly tagged.(No spelling errors, different conventions, abbreviations, acronyms etc.)

But no one wants to tag all these documents....but not worry as we can set up default values on each folder. GREAT!

There's is loads of talk about the demise of folders and the rise of metadata.

There is even more talk about avoiding folders completely.

This morning I thought about going on a one man crusade against all the blogs advocating metadata by posting messages. Then I thought let's go to my humble Tumblr page.

Here's the crux of my problem:

USERS LIKE ONEDRIVE (for Business) because it replicates the standard desktop experience that they had with network drives.

You cannot search for files/folders using metadata with OneDrive. You can only 'Sync a library'.

Therefore if ALL your files were in the root folder of your library, there is no way to find what you're looking for.

Until Microsoft expands OneDrive to give metadata search options, FOLDERS ARE ALIVE AND WELL IN SHAREPOINT ONLINE!!!