Filters Pane (Smartfilters) now available; plus new updates!

Hi @Miceile Barrett,

Super excited about the FIlters Pane, especially allowing for a tree format, this is what had been keeping me from shifting our company to the new document libraray experience (which I love).

I may, however, have stumbled upon a bug.

When using managed metadata, in Library Settings, in the meta data column, if I allow multiple values, it creates a problem for the filter pane. Namely, if I then select more than one check box in the filter pane for that managed metadata, it gives an error message. And a cryptic one at that: "The specified view is invalid. The specified view might have been deleted or you might not have permission to view it. Contact the site owner for more information."

Since I suspect this is something you are going to want to address, I will provide additional detail below, along with screenshots.

First, here is how it worked in the classic view. I enabled multiple values, created a document, and set the properties of the document to two values.

As you can see below, when, in the classic Smartfilters, I select the parent term it properly shows the item that has the related child terms.

Now, in your Filters Pane in the Modern Experience I was super excited the way you have the check boxes set up. I no longer would have to choose between viewing one child term or viewing all child terms (by selecting the parent term).

However, when viewing that library in the Modern Experience, when I check more than one box in that same metadata term set, I get the following error message.

Now if I go into the library setting for the column, and uncheck "Allow multiple values" like this:

And then go back to that same Filters Pane view, a voila, it works again, no error message.

I hope you can find a way to fix this is a way that still allows for us to use multiple values. After all, one of the big selling points for using SharePoint instead of a file share is that you can tag an item multple ways, so you no longer have to pick one folder to save a file in.

I also hope you can keep the check box format of the filters pane so that you could, say, check two child terms and just see the results of that. I was really excited to see the possibility of that in how you designed filter panes.

Feel free to contact me if I can be helpful in testing, etc.