Document information panel in SharePoint contains Meta data
about document. This will enables users to enter metadata regarding the
document. Documents stored in library will contain other columns to show
metadata. Document information panel will display the field for each content
type property or column that user can edit.
Document management panel allows users to enter metadata for
Microsoft based documents that stored in SharePoint. This will not display by
default with the document. We have show this by changing the settings for
content type.
We can enable document information panel using the steps
below,
Navigate to SharePoint Document library Settings page, Click
on the content type which to enable Document Information Panel should be
enabled.
Click on Document Information Panel Settings in settings
section.
In Document Information Panel Templates section, we can
specify the default template or custom template. Select “Always Show Document
Information Panel on document open and initial save for this content type” Check-box in Show Always section, Click on OK to save the settings.
By editing the document uploaded to document library we can
see the fields as shown below.
