{"id":190,"date":"2020-02-17T16:39:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T15:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/metashare-help-user-manual-how-to-edit-a-workspaces-properties\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T11:46:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T09:46:26","slug":"how-to-edit-a-workspaces-properties","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/metashare\/usermanual\/manage-workspaces\/how-to-edit-a-workspaces-properties\/","title":{"rendered":"How to edit a workspace\u2019s properties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you are an owner of a workspace, you can modify the workspace\u2019s metadata:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/usermanual\/metashares-start-page\/\">MetaShare&#8217;s start page<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select\u00a0the workspace that you want to edit and click on the \u201dProperties\u201d function in the toolbar:<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"482\" class=\"wp-image-12246\" style=\"width: 800px\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-edit-a-workspaces-properties.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-edit-a-workspaces-properties.png 1280w, https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-edit-a-workspaces-properties-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-edit-a-workspaces-properties-1024x386.png 1024w, https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-edit-a-workspaces-properties-768x289.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The workspace\u2019s properties form is now shown on the right side of the page and the metadata that can be changed are:\n<ol style=\"list-style-type:lower-alpha\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The workspace\u2019s \u201cName\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Any custom metadata<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click on the \u201cSave\u201d button.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Note<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Workspace Members and Visitors also have access to the workspace properties function but when they click on it, they will only come to a read-only form where they can see all workspace properties.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When a workspace\u2019s \u201cName\u201d is changed, the change will not be reflected in the &#8220;SharePoint URL&#8221;. If you as well want to change the &#8220;SharePoint URL&#8221; you need to <a href=\"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/usermanual\/how-to-create-a-workspace\">create a new workspace<\/a> and then <a href=\"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/usermanual\/how-to-move-documents\">move the documents to this workspace<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If any of the workspace metadata&#8217;s terms\/labels have been changed, these will not be reflected directly in <a href=\"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/usermanual\/metashares-start-page\/\">MetaShare&#8217;s start page<\/a>. They first need to be reindexed by the search engine, which normally takes about 15 minutes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A workspace&#8217;s &#8220;Configuration&#8221; and &#8220;SharePoint URL&#8221; cannot be changed from MetaShare. If you would like to change these, here are your options:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/faq\/can-i-rename-a-sharepoint-sites-url\/\">Can I rename a SharePoint site&#8217;s URL?<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/faq\/can-i-change-a-workspaces-workspace-configuration\/\">Can I change a workspace&#8217;s workspace configuration?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The workspace&#8217;s Time zone cannot be changed from MetaShare but you can easily do this directly from the SharePoint site, by going to &#8220;Site Settings&#8221; and choosing &#8220;Regional Settings&#8221;. If however need to be the site&#8217;s &#8220;site collection administrator&#8221; to perform this action.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are an owner of a workspace, you can modify the workspace\u2019s metadata: Note<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":10672,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-190","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"no-featured-image-padding"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12249,"href":"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/190\/revisions\/12249"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}