How to Enable or Disable Document Property Promotion in SharePoint 2013

In this article you will see how to enable or disable document property promotion in SharePoint 2013 using PowerShell.

Introduction

Document promotion is used to pull the document metadata (Example: Title) from Word 2013 documents when uploading the document to the SharePoint document library and set those metadata values to the corresponding field as shown below. Please refer to Document Property Promotion and Demotion for more details.



Disable Document Property Promotion using PowerShell

1. Open the SharePoint 2013 Management Shell as Administrator.
2. Run the following script to disable document property promotion.
    

   $web=Get-SPweb "http://c4968397007/"
   ## Set the ParserEnabled property to False to disable the document property promotion
   $web.ParserEnabled=$false
   $web.Update()                     

3. Note: To enable set the ParserEnabled property to True.
4. Document Property Promotion is disabled successfully and when you try to upload a document you will find that all the fields are empty as shown below (Note: Column2 – default value is Yes).

 

Summary

Thus in this article you saw how to enable or disable document property promotion in SharePoint 2013 using PowerShell.