How do I remove the Document ID's from all documents?

Question

_{Wednesday, March 9, 2011 3:07 PM}

Hello,

I activated the "Document ID Service" site collection feature, and played around with the Document ID's, eventually I decided its not a feature we can use.  And so I deactivated this feature.

However, every Document has retained its Document ID, and new documents still pickup the "Document ID" field which is blank.

How can I remove the Document ID's from all of the Documents?

I expected this to be removed\hidden when I de-activated the feature.

Thanks,  TBS

All replies (3)

_{Wednesday, March 9, 2011 3:33 PM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

According to this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee559302.aspx

Deactivating the feature removes links to the Site Collection Settings page, makes the page that is used to look up document IDs no longer available, turns off the document ID service, and stops assigning document IDs. The server does not remove the columns that it adds at the site level when the feature is first activated so that, even after deactivation, the existing document IDs are preserved. After the feature is deactivated, users who try to use a static URL to look up an item by its document ID see an error message indicating that "This Site Collection is not configured to use document IDs."

 

The Document id service will add new columns to the document content type and the document set content type.  It also adds an event receiver which should be deactivated when you deactivate the doc id service.  Theoretically.  You should be able to go in and remove the columns from the document type, and then force an update.  But.... I have never tried that and not sure what other affects it may have.  Try it in a test bed first.

 

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_{Wednesday, March 9, 2011 3:11 PM}

I would just remove the column from the view.  You can make views for each list, it you look under the list by Clicking List while the list is open, you should see a link in the ribbon which say "Modify view" click this link.  This link will open the edit view page you can then uncheck the box for the column which will remove it form that view. I hope this helps...

Good luck,

Gary

Gary Newman MCSE, MCT, CCNA MCDBA, MCAD, MCSA MCTS SharePoint 2007 Dev & Admin MCPD SharePoint 2010 Development

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_{Wednesday, March 9, 2011 3:20 PM}

I would just remove the column from the view.  You can make views for each list, it you look under the list by Clicking List while the list is open, you should see a link in the ribbon which say "Modify view" click this link.  This link will open the edit view page you can then uncheck the box for the column which will remove it form that view. I hope this helps...

Good luck,

Gary

Gary Newman MCSE, MCT, CCNA MCDBA, MCAD, MCSA MCTS SharePoint 2007 Dev & Admin MCPD SharePoint 2010 Development

Thanks for the quick reply, already checked that and the Document ID column is already hidden from view.

The problem is the Document ID is displayed on the Document Properties, or Metadata.  And I cant see a way of removing this.