Add content type dropdown menu greyed out in Modern SharePoint Document Library

Yasmeen 226

Hello,

I was following the instructions from this article about adding content types in modern SharePoint:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/609399c7-5c42-4e25-aff0-b59d4aa1867f

Although Allow management of content types is turned on in the advanced library settings, the Choose content type menu in the Document Library Add column menu is still greyed out. Why is that, how do I fix it? Here's a screen capture.

Thanks,

Yasmeen

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Emily Du-MSFT 42,026 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2023-03-16T02:06:02.35+00:00

Thank you for your question.

We are currently looking into this issue and will give you an update as soon as possible.

Thank you for your understanding and support.
Caid Wride 0 Reputation points

2024-03-05T19:31:40.9833333+00:00

I experience the same issue. I'm told I have permissions and the fields are all available in the SharePoint admin center to add the content types to the Content Type Gallery, but when I click the Create button all I get is a spinning circle which goes on indefinitely and never adds the content type. The answer posted by Emily Du-MSFT on Mar 16, 2023 did not fix the issue for me.

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Emily Du-MSFT 42,026 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2023-03-16T10:11:27.08+00:00

In this way only all published content types can be added. Please go to content type hub gallery in the SharePoint admin center, then published content types that you want to add. After that, you could add content types in this way in the document library.

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Emily Du-MSFT 42,026 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2023-03-20T01:40:26.9666667+00:00

I’m checking how the things are going on about this issue. Whether the answer helps you?

If there is any problem with this issue, feel free to let me know.

Yasmeen 226 Reputation points

2023-03-22T20:00:04.3533333+00:00

Hi @Emily Du-MSFT , thanks for the follow-up. The instructions partly worked.

I published 21 content types and only 7 of them have been pulled into our SharePoint sites. I was waiting a couple of days to see if the other 14 would appear and they haven't; here are some screen captures. How can this be fixed?

part of Published List:

As of today, still only 7 of these content types are being pulled in:

Emily Du-MSFT 42,026 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2023-03-23T08:03:06.14+00:00

In my opinion, due to it is a document library, only Documents Content Types and Custom Content Types categories can be pulled into. You could change the category then have a test.

Yasmeen 226 Reputation points

2023-03-29T19:30:08.6566667+00:00

@Emily Du-MSFT Yes, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you for clarifying.
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