Hello.

We have a lot of document we want to add to Sharepoint 2013. These documents are all created by several different users.

I want to have a column in a Sharepoint document library. That shows who created the document (the author, not the one that uploaded the document). I want the name that is under the properties of the info page in the document.

I have tried the "Created by" field, but the name that appears is the uploader. Not the Author.

Is it possible to get the author somehow?

Hello,

If you want the name of any person as created by in sharepoint document library when you upload the documents through code, it is only possible only if the author is a sharepoint user, if this is the case you can make document author to appear in created by using CSOM, or server object model.  info:  "Author" is the sharepoint  filed internal name for Created By.

We have some documents created by external users aswell. It would be really nice to generate these names in Sharepoint.

I thought maybe Sharepoint would recognize the names from the document properties somehow.Like the "Admin and User" on this image (Word info):

Hi Whobe1337,

below link you can find the solution.

http://www.denisstadler.com/sharepoint-2013/tips-for-ecm-in-sharepoint-2013-from-word-properties-to-sharepoint-columns/

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/00b648dc-6b9b-420d-b9eb-6ac095f6f5b2/core-document-columns-author-and-date-created?forum=sharepointgeneralprevious

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I think, sharepoint won't take the all field values to update the metadata this way, Author filed in the exception and there may be other fields as well. Your functionality needs custom code.