Forum Discussion
Saving to Groups from Office Desktop Applications
- Nov 07, 2017
Angus,
Appreciate the feedback and keep it coming!
The experience you are seeing is what will likely be in the first release.
To each of your points:
1) We are looking into different ways of making this list a bit easier to manage for future releases. The ability to remove a Group from the list is one of them, as well as supporting ways to filter the list.
2) I'll need to follow up on the ordering of the followed list. I believe it is ordered by when you followed the site on the SharePoint experience...
3) The ability to 'pin' a group is also something we are looking at for future releases. We already support a way to do this within the Office apps (you can pin a specific location to the Save As experience) but I think you are asking for something that appears wherever you access a Group (whether it be Outlook, SharePoint or Office) - correct?
Thanks!
Patrick
Angus Hamilton wrote:
Hi
Thanks very much for the clear update - much appreciated.
I'm on Office Insider, so am I right in thinking the experience I am seeing (with Frequent and Following) is what will make it into first release?
Couple of thoughts if that's OK...
1. Frequent is a bit messy and long in my case (35 sites), and there doesn't seem to be a way to remove entries?
2. Could/should following be in alphabetical order?
3. Could there be a favourites/pin facility, as in standard folders?
This is definitely getting there - I can just see it being a bit overwhelming for users as the frequent list fills up, and you can't see the more refined 'following' list without scrolling down...
Thanks
Angus
Check the answers to my post here!
The feature has been made better in the past months and it's currently in Insider Fast ring.
Hi
Thanks for that - and letting me know about the replies on the other post.
I've updated to the insider channel, and they are indeed there, albeit in a slightly (completely) random order :-) Moving in the right direction - let's hope it hits general release sooner rather than later.
In the meantime, may also be worth checking out the Sync'ing of these libraries with OneDrive for Business. In the Fall Creator release of Windows, Files on Demand makes this a more usable solution, as you don't get all the files on your local PC - just those you're working on.
thanks
Angus
- Patrick_GanNov 07, 2017
Microsoft
Angus,
Thanks for testing out the feature!
The ordering of the Groups in the Frequent list is based on activity within the Group, with more weight being placed on Groups that you have opened and saved files.
Hopefully that makes sense with what you are seeing but please let us know if that is not the case.
Patrick