Sunday, April 15, 2012

Problem ( A look-up field contains invalid data. Please check the value and try again. ) with uploading documents to SharePoint Document Library.

When you upload a document to Document libary you may get an error message 'Invalid look-up value. A look-up field contains invalid data. Please check the value and try again.'



This indicates a problem with document properties. You can fix this by using 'Document Inspector' in MS Office 2007(Word, PowerPoint or Excel). The document inspector can be accessed using 'Home>Prepare>Insepect Document'.

In the 'Document Inspector' window select the option 'Remove All' to clear the document properties.

Now save and upload the document again and you may not receive the error message ('Invalid look-up value. A look-up field contains invalid data. Please check the value and try again.')
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  1. SriJune 7, 2013 at 6:13 AM

    Alternate solution ::
    You can right click the document and check the custom properties. If you find some properties matching with library (where you want to upload) column name(look up coulmn), just delete or rename the column (internal name). Then you can upload the document as usual. This is the best way to avoid this issue.

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