Office Add-In: Get properties from related Document

There is another problem except not reaching related documents!

You cannot even add a single element of a multiselect property to word or excel if it is document type:

Is this really how it should be?

Addition:

This is how it looks for a list of text values, there I can pick a single element of the list..

Hi Sweise,

It seems you are right in that you cannot add the built-in property Document to a document and then use it later to insert such references automatically into Word or Excel.

However, you can easily create a new property - perhaps called "Documents" - and use it exactly as intended. This is a very simple work around, no need for complicated scripts or other hocus-pocus.

Thanks for answering but I don't use the built-in property "Document", I'm using a custom Document property and look what it looks like when I want to insert a single value from this property:

I can only insert the whole content of the property not a single element!

This is what it should look like:

You can select Test #1  (or any of the other values). #1 will always be the first in the list - also when there only is one value, so it is safe to use that as your choice if it meets your criteria. If you need to select different values from case to case it is not possible to do it this way. Then you would have to somehow pick the correct value and place it in a different property.

I know this but the second picture shows a non document type property there I have no problem

BUT

with document type property there is no #1, #2, #3... There is only one field containing all values! In the last picture there would be only the first line "Test 1; 2; 3; 4; 5;"..

Hope you can understand what I mean ;)

I know this but the second picture shows a non document type property there I have no problem

BUT

with document type property there is no #1, #2, #3... There is only one field containing all values! In the last picture there would be only the first line "Test 1; 2; 3; 4; 5;"..

Hope you can understand what I mean ;)