Orphaned column in a content type

Hi,
We have MMS and Content Type Hub created.
Initially we created a column and added it to a couple of content types in the Content Type Hub and published the content types.
Recently we deleted the column from one particular content type and republished the content type, but still we see the column in the content type in the subscribing site collections New and Old.
Have manually run the jobs "Content Type Hub" and "Content Type Subscriber"

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that the content type in the subscribing site collections don’t update immediately.
I recommend that you can try to check and test the things as below:
1. Go to “SharePoint 2013 Central Administration”, click on the “Application Management”, click on the “Manage Service Application”, select “Managed Metadata Service Application”, check the Managed metadata service connection properties to make
sure that the option “Consumes content types from Content Type gallery at <your correct Content Type Hub URL>” and “Push-down Content Type Publishing updates from the Content Type Gallery to sub-sites and lists using the content type” is enabled.
2. Go to “Site Settings”, click on the “Site content types”, select the particular content type, click on the “Manage publishing for this content type”, check the “Unpublish” button and click on the “OK” button, then you need to publish it again.
3. Go to “Site Settings”, click on the “Content Type Publishing” to check the “Refresh all published content types on next update” and the “the Content Type Publishing error log”.
4. Go to “Monitoring” in the “SharePoint 2013 Central Administration”, click on the “Review job definitions”, find the
“Content Type Hub” and “Content Type Subscriber” timer jobs to run again, and check if the two timer job’s status is succeeded.
For more information, you can refer to:
http://blog.morg.nl/2011/11/content-type-hub-not-working-possible-causes/
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/248fcf93-5ebe-4404-8b7d-f1f32d0046e3/content-type-hub-syndication-and-publishing-works-but-not-for-already-applied-content-types?forum=sharepointgeneral
https://support.office.com/en-US/Article/Publish-a-content-type-from-a-content-publishing-hub-58081155-118d-4e7a-9cc5-d43b5dbb7d02?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
http://sharepoint-community.net/profiles/blogs/understanding-content-type-hub-cth-in-sharepoint-2013
Best Regards,
Yumi Fu

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As I understand, you have custom content type in 3 libraries, while the issue occurs to the columns in this content type.
I wonder if the issue occurs to other two libraries as well?
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xml !! This way, SharePoint knows that when you have multiple content types with the same site columns in the same library, the second content type also need to get the hidden field from this site columns like in the example below!
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
;
<ContentType ID="0x010100571ebc0f478a49d5a775039347ee1535"
Name="Document Location"
Group="Demo"
Description="A content type containing Managed Metadata Column."
Inherits="TRUE"
Version="0">
<FieldRefs>
<FieldRef ID="{B654D984-187A-471B-8738-F08F3356CFDA}" Name="Countries"/>
<FieldRef ID="{67308AC2-9556-456B-BF9E-43E8F23EBEE6}" Name="CountriesTaxHTField0"/>
<FieldRef ID="{f3b0adf9-c1a2-4b02-920d-943fba4b3611}" Name="TaxCatchAll"/>
<FieldRef ID="{8f6b6dd8-9357-4019-8172-966fcd502ed2}" Name="TaxCatchAllLabel"/>
</FieldRefs>
</ContentType>
</Elements>
I'm very happy I found this solution, because in the whole project i'm implementing, this was used a lot!
Special thanks to the blog of @cann0nf0dder (http://cann0nf0dder.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/creating-a-site-column-with-managed-metadata) which let me think about this!
This ticket is answered now! :-)
Kind regards,
Davy

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I don't know if this is the correct category to put the question in but if not you're free to move it...
I'm creating a page layout in SharePoint 2013 using SharePoint Designer and the Design Manager, and so far everything seems to be working. But I would like to add the "Modified" site column to my page layout but it is not available in Design Manager
as a snippet, likely because the column is not added to the content type. I thought I would be able to simply add the site column in my content type definition as a reference like this:
<FieldRef ID="{28cf69c5-fa48-462a-b5cd-27b6f9d2bd5f}" Name="Modified" />
This has worked for all the custom site columns I have added to the content type but for some reason the "Modified" site column is not added to the content type. Does anyone know why this may be the case? Do I need to add other attributes in the
field reference?

I don't know what has changed since last time I tried it but if I insert this snippet it works as expected:
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Adding new site columns to my issue tracking List, will result in having their Source field as blank inside the Issue content type

I have added an Issue tracking list to my SharePoint team site 2013. Then I wanted to add 5 extra columns to my list . So I did the following:-
I went to site settings.
Then I added 5 new site columns.
I went back to my list setting, I click on the “Issue” content type, and I added the 5 newly added site columns to my "Issue" content type , using the “Add from existing site or list columns” link as follow:-
And then these columns were added automatically inside the Edit, Create& Display forms.
But since this is the first time I work on such a task , so I want to make sure that I did every thing correctly. Because I am not sure why the 5 newly added site columns will have their source field inside the “Issue” content type as blank , as shown in
the above picture. So does this indicate that there is a problem ? or this is because I have added the 5 newly added site columns to the List content type and not inside the Content type at the site level ?
Thanks

Hi,
It’s by design, the Source field means the content type name.
As you said, when we create a new column, if we not attach the column to a content type, then the column would have not the source field option.
However, if you create a new column, then add the column in a content type, the content type would automatically update in the site.
Now, you would see a source content type appear.
Thanks & Regards,
Jason
Jason Guo
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List content type columns don't show new names after resource files were changed

Hello,
we ran into a problem, that we're not able to figure out at the moment.
We have a site collection with site columns and site content types defined and created with
features ant their XML files. All display names are retrieved from resource files. We do have
several subsites, that have predefined lists also created from features and their corresponding
XML files. They use inherited versions of these site content types as list content types with
their columns inherited from the site columns.
We had some changes within the resource files and never ran into a problem up to now.
We changed the display names of some of these columns within the resource files. After
these changes the site columns, site content types and list columns show the changes
as planned. Unfortunately the columns of the list content types do not display the changes.
They still show the old name. If you try to alter the old names manually the new name is
shown within the form, but you're not able to save it and the list content type columns
still have their old name afterwards.
We checked our definition files and they seemed to be well.
Any ideas?
Regards,
Markus
List columns as defined within new the resource file:
List content type columns, that do not show the changes from the new resource file:

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you want to modify the site column name in the list.
I try to reproduce the issue, however, everything works well.
You can modify the DisplayName in the Element.xml file.
Then after you redeploy the project, the site column name will be changed in the list setting page.
In addition, please check whether you create the list correctly.
For more information, you can refer to
Walkthrough: Create a Site Column, Content Type, and List for SharePoint
Thanks,
Linda Li
Forum Support
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