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Miceile Barrett
Microsoft
MicrosoftFilters Pane (Smartfilters) now available; plus new updates!
Quickly find the item you need!
Filters Pane (previously known as Smartfilters) began rolling out at the end of January and I am excited to announce it is now available for use in Modern document libraries and lists. Find your content faster by using this new feature to filter metadata inside your library or list.
Filters PaneFor more details on the feature, visit the help article.
Along with availability, the Filters Pane has a new capability of pinning. Any column in your list or library can be added to the Filters Pane via the Pin feature. To pin a column you want to add to the Filters Pane, select Pin to filters pane in Column Settings.
Pinning will become generally avaliable at the end of the week.
We hope this feature can help you find your content easier and faster. We look forward to hearing your feedback!
Hi I am having a problem.The filters options that I see can be Pinned or deleted. Once I delete one of them is there a way to get it back?
Click on the column header, you will see option to either add it to filter or pin it.
Thanks
- Great Thx. for the quick answer!
Hi,
Filter Pane is helpful to refine the view results. Few questions on its behavior:
1) Based on Meta Data Navigation settings, default fields/columns are shown in the Filter Pane
2) What are other default columns that will automatically show up based on the view results?
3) I notice "Type" appears on the Filter Pane if there are multiple types of files in a view result. Is this configurable?
Hi,
This is how one of our document library view looks like with Filter Pane enabled. Two questions based on this:
1) The result set shows files that are created in Year 2017. But neither Modified/Created slider in the Filter Pane reflects it. Is there any reason?
2) The created since 2018 shows year 2019+ in the slider. Won't that slider be useful if it shows date prior to today or the year (or the year of a file that is the oldest in that doclib or list)?
Result set not reflecting in Filter Pane
At what permission level is "Pin to Filter Pane" available? It seems like they are not available to contributors. This can be kind of painful for admins as I am constantly getting emails stating that their column isn't available in the Filter Pane and then I have to go and add it in for them. It would be great to have this option available so people could add it to the Filter Pane. Even if it were not permanent, it would still be helpful within a session.
Shelley
I'm still loving the new Smartfilters pane!
One thing I also liked in the classic interface is you could use both a tree format and a "key filters" UI, a primary benefit of the later being the ability to type-ahead to a specific term, so you don't have to drill down a complicated tree if you already know what term you want to tag the file with.
Might some sort of type-ahead function be possible in the modern Smartfilters pane?
Hi @Miceile Barrett , do you think the key filters/type-ahead functionality from the classic sites will be brought into the Smartfilters pane at some point?
Hi
The filtering is still not working right for me. For example when I click the parent term "Strathmerton" documents are corrrectly filtered to "Strathmerton" and all child term tagged docs.
Then when I deselect "Administration" the docs tagged under that term are removed.
BUT then when I deselect "General" All filtering stops and every document is shown, without any error message.
The only way to restore filtering is to Select the parent term again, deselect and reselect it again.
- Great stuff! Thanks for the update..
It's still not working for us too, we have a couple of managed metdata site columns and the filtering doesn't work on the one that allows multiple selections but it does work on the one that is single selection only. Also there seems to be no way of selecting just a parent term and 1 child, it always selects all the childeren terms as well. For example we can't choose to display documents relating to all of USA and 1 state.
Hi Michelle,
I'm having an issue with the filtering pane in modern list views. I've included an Enterprise Keywords column in my list; while I can filter in other columns for managed metadata I cannot with this column. Whenever I enter one of the keywords, the list views shows up empty even though there are items tagged with it even in that view. Is this a known issue or do I need to change something in my configuration?
Regards,
Nils The term "Duldung" shows up here several times
Once I filter for it this is the view I get
- Miceile BarrettI can still not repro. Can you send me a fiddler trace?
Best,
MiceileHi Miceile,
I'm on a machine with sensitive data where I'd rather not grant all the permissions to Fiddler. Right now I can't spend the time to get it working on another machine- I'd be happy to screenshare on my Mac / virtualized Windows though if that's of any help.
Best,
Nils
- Miceile Barrett
Hi Nils, sorry you are seeing this behavior.
We did have an issue with managed metadata selection in the filters pane, but the fix is rolled out to everyone.
I want to confirm, you ARE seeing some managed metadata columns working in the filter pane? How did this specific column get added to the filters pane? Did you pin, or was the column part of your metadata nav settings? (It shouldn't matter, but I want to try and repro.)
Best,
MIceile
Hi Miceile,
yes, I'm still seeing this- the sceenshots are a couple of hours old.
- If the column contains only my taxonomy metadata, there's no issue filtering it (works great, even). I can only replicate the issue in an enterprise keywords column.
- It was added right in the list, not via content type.
- Metadata navigation (in SPO classic view) has not been turned on (we're currently making the switch to SPO).
- The views seem not to be an issue; I've used views from all items (without foldesr) to my specific views and the issue persists.
- Neither does pinning or not pinning this column make a change; in the previous screenshots it was added automatically but I've tried both ways now.
- It doesn't change either when I create the coloumn on a regular team site vs. a group site made via MS Teams.
One of the many features that are missed in Modern libraries is "Managed Metadata Navigation".
- Does MS positioning column filtering as alternative, or this is "personal productivity" feature and need to be done by each user for herself? In other words, is pinning can be done as part of the "library ?desing" ( i.e. can columns can be pinned by developer so all users have the same pinned columns)
- can columns of type "managed metadata" be pinned ?
- Miceile Barrett
Hello Yuri,
The Filters Pane has replaced the classic Managed Metadata Naviagation experience. We automatically take the metadata nav config and surface settings in Filters Pane. The filters pane supports all column types, including managed metadata's tree view of taxonomy. We did have a bug with showing the MMS column type.. this has been fixed and in PROD.
The filters pane configuration is per library, not per user. If you pin columns in a view, all users will be able to see the pinned column in that lib.
Yes managed metadata can be pinned.
