SharePoint List Items Wizard - List Item Content Field

The List Item Content Field wizard screen is displayed when the From Content Field option was selected from the Update List Items wizard screen.

Fig. 1. SharePoint List Item Wizard - Update List Item From Content Control

Feature	What it is	How to use it
Content Field	Specifies the Content Field that should be used when configuring the List Item	Click on the ellipse button and browse to the relevant Content Field
Preserve metadata that is not updated	Specifies whether metadata should be preserved if not selected to be updated.	Select this option to preserve metadata that is not selected in this event to be updated, for example the Created By column in the SharePoint List. By default this option is selected. Deselect the option if metadata should not be preserved.

How to use the Preserve metadata that is not updated option

The Preserve metadata that is not updated option can be used to preserve column data that is not selected to be updated. This would typically be the columns:

Modified By
Modified Date

It is however possible to preserve metadata from custom columns. The custom columns that are not selected to be updated via the wizard will be preserved if this option is checked.

We recommend that the following updates are installed to make use of this functionality:

The latest SharePoint Cumulative Updates.
The latest SharePoint Service Pack.

For all new processes, this functionality will be available.
To make use of this new functionality on existing workflows, update the design templates, open the wizard and make the necessary configuration and redeploy the process.
If the Run As functionality is used on this event, with the Preserve metadata that is not updated option enabled, the Run As user must have the following rights:
- SharePoint 2010 - SharePoint Site Collection Administrator
- MOSS2007 - Full Control on the SharePoint Site